Exhibition Event Series: Tarot
Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AB
16 April 2025, 7:00PM – 8:30PM

https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/eight-films-on-tarot-2025

With Lori E. Allen and William Fowler.

Eight Films on Tarot To Be Shown in Any Order traces the imprint of tarot on film. Spanning artists’ moving image, archive television and cult cinema, a selection of rare archival works will be drawn at random in the Warburg’s auditorium, revealing a remarkable film history guided by chance. 

We are holding a film screening event in conjunction with our current exhibition, “Tarot – Origins & Afterlives”, which has inaugurated the Warburg Institute’s new artistic programme and has received over 15,000 visitors to date. The Tarot by Lynne Sachs screened alongside Derek Jarman’s Tarot aka The Magician, an extract from Agnes Varda’s Cleo de 5 a 7, and many other artist films. During the event cards representing each film in the programme will be selected at random to determine the order of screening.

William Fowler is Curator of Artists’ Moving Image at the BFI National Archive where he acquires, restores and curates films. Recent projects include People Make Television and Together: The Films of Lorenza Mazzetti. His co-authored book The Bodies Beneath: The Flipside of British Film and Television is available through Strange Attractor Press/MIT. 

Lori E Allen is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice focuses on sound design and experimental composition. She is published, with collaborators, on various record labels including Tapeworm, Wormhole and Bloxham Tapes under the name TEARS | O V. Recent projects include, People Make Television, and TRANSMISSIONS TV, on which she worked with various collaborators.