Lights Up: American Structural Film

At the same time as Dan Flavin emerged onto the 60s New York art scene, a radical new movement was also emerging in avant-garde film. American film-makers started making startlingly bold and iconic works described, in 1969, by film critic P Adams Sitney as Structural Film.

Structural Film is sometimes mind-expanding, sometimes ugly, and often leaves you with the feeling that you could have done it better yourself but, four decades on, it still carries with it the spark of revolution.

To coincide with Dan Flavin: A Retrospective, a major exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, the NFT presents a series of three screenings of key works from the period. It starts tonight. Programme here.