Upcoming screenings

Bar Laika by e-flux is excited to continue our screening series with a selection of film classics and new video works by Jonas Mekas, Walid Raad, Sophia Al-Maria, Martha Rosler, and Coco Fusco. Please note that our opening hours are now Wednesday through Sunday, and starting this Saturday we will be adding a morning coffee service from 7 to 11am, serving delicious Parlor coffee, fresh orange juice, and homemade pastries. Our Sunday brunch service will begin on November 18. 

Screening program
Jonas Mekas, Travel Songs, 1967–81
Thursday, November 15, 9pm 

Drawn together from two decades of itinerant shooting in Europe, Travel Songs evokes Jonas Mekas’ improvisatory approach to sightseeing, with Assisi, Moscow, and Stockholm all filtered through his singularly animated lens. Though tuned to fine-grained particularities of landscape and culture, Travel Songs is finally a testament to the razzle-dazzle Mekas seems to find no matter where he goes.

Walid Raad, Selections from The Atlas Group Archive, 1989–2004
Wednesday, November 21, 9pm

The Atlas Group (1989-2004) is a project by Walid Raad about the contemporary history of Lebanon. The evening will feature the following selections from the project’s archive: Hostage: The Bachar Tapes (English version) (2001, 16:17 minutes); I only wish that I could weep (2002, 5 minutes); and Miraculous Beginnings and No, Illness Is Neither Here Nor There (1993, 1:43 minutes).

Vdrome presents: Sophia Al-Maria, The Future was Desert I and II, 2016
Thursday, November 29, 9pm

“Deserts possess a particular magic, since they have exhausted their own futures, and are thus free of time.” J.G. Ballard’s commentary opens and sets the tone for Sophia Al-Maria’s The Future was Desert I and II, two videos that pursue the artist’s interest in exploring the visual and aural aesthetics of deep time and post-human time in the Gulf Region. Depicting the intricacy between fossil-fuel dependency, wealth, and environmental devastation, Al-Maria creates a set of delirious, post-apocalyptic dreamscapes in which past and future appear as arbitrary temporal references within a complex geopolitical landscape. The screening will be introduced by Vdrome’s Andrea Lissoni, and will feature a surprise video.

Martha Rosler Reads Vogue, 1982
Thursday, December 6, 9pm

In this live performance for Paper Tiger Television’s public-access cable program in New York, Martha Rosler deconstructs the messages in Vogue and its advertising. Rosler looks at the institutional slants of the magazine industry and the fashion industry’s reliance on sweatshops.

Coco Fusco, To Live in June with Your Tongue Hanging Out, 2018
Thursday, December 13, 9pm

The third of a suite of videos about poetry and politics in Cuba, Coco Fusco’s new video essay explores writer Reinaldo Arenas’ vision and experience of the island and their connection to the present moment.

Bar Laika by e-flux
Opening hours
Mornings: Wednesday–Saturday 7–11am
Evenings: Wednesday–Thursday 6pm–12am, Friday–Saturday 6pm–1am, Sunday 10am–10pm
Bar Laika will be closed for Thanksgiving on Thursday, November 22

For more information, contact laika [​at​] e-flux.com.