Baltic Cinema: Other Actors (Jarman Award 2026)

Baltic Cinema: Other Actors (adv. 15)
Thu 10 Dec | 18:30 | £6 / £4.50* per person
Dir. Ilona Sagar UK 2025 / 59m

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Other Actors explores the links between bodies and buildings, health and architecture through the lens of Paimio Sanatorium in Finland.

Designed by Alvar and Aino Aalto and completed between 1929 and 1933, the sanatorium represents a radical shift in design for health. Conceived as an ‘instrument for healing,’ the Aaltos proposed an architecture designed not for the verticality of the healthy body but for the horizontal perspective of the sick.

At the time of filming, the sanatorium was at a significant moment in its transition from hospital to a new purpose. As restoration progresses, the film examines its status as a building in flux. The film was made in close collaboration with those who have lived and worked in Paimio Sanatorium, including former maintenance staff, workers at the furniture manufacturer Artek, and surviving architects of the Aaltos' design team, alongside theorists Beatriz Colomina, Heini Hakosalo, and Peter Stadius.

Folding together historical research, professional and lived experience, Other Actors is informed by Aalto University School of Engineering, Kalasatama Undocumented Migrants Clinic and Tuberculosis Research Groups at Leicester University and Imperial College London. Through these intersecting perspectives, the film asks us to consider what we do with the architectural legacies of modernism that linger in our cultural imaginary, and how we can platform those hidden behind its visual façades.

Other Actors screens in the context of the Film London Jarman Award 2026, for which Ilona Sagar is nominated.

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Doors open 18:00; Film starts 18:30. Pop-up cinema bar open from 18:00 for drinks.

Please note we cannot offer refunds on this event unless the event is cancelled. If the event is cancelled, we will offer a full refund but won’t be able to refund donations.
*Concessions: under 18s, unwaged & 65+