No one way works – International Workers' Day
Line up: Nightshift (1981)

In honour of International Workers' Day, we'll show three films that explore the work we share and communities we build. We start the evening with soup and bread, and the screening of two contemporary Dutch documentaries: In This Together (2026) and The Mukhtar’s Chair (2024). After that, we have our second screening of Robina Rose' feature film Nightshift (1981), and we end the evening with drinks in the foyer. MORE→

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Nightshift

Robina Rose | 1981 | USA | 68’ | EN subtitles

"In a sleepy West London hotel, a receptionist moves through her tasks as the hours stubbornly drag on. Keys must be handed out, forms filled, cellophane slit. The drudgery of service takes on the visual language of dream, as a hotel transforms into a stage set for the liminal activities of its eccentric clientele. Nightshift shows a woman overcoming the indignities of the workplace through strategies of reverie and refusal." (Another Gaze)

A low-budget filmmaking marvel, shot in five days on 16mm at the Portobello Hotel, where artist Robina Rose worked at the time. Creative collaborators – paid mostly in wine and Rose’s mother’s home cooking – include many key figures of London's early 80's underground art scene.

Lovingly restored by Ross Lipman in collaboration with Cinenova, Lightbox, and the BFI National Archive.