31 March 2019, 16:30, ICA Cinema Dora García’s film documents a Swiss reading group which since 1985 has met every week to explore the mysteries of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. Before the screening, a special reading event dedicated to Finnegans Wake took place in the ICA Studio, hosted by director Dora García and Finn Fordham, Royal Holloway London. Film: The Joycean Society, Dora García, Belgium, 2013, DCP, 53 minutes, English A famously mammoth and difficult text, James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake (1939) has long been regarded as a labyrinth of interpretations. In her film The Joycean Society, Spanish artist and filmmaker Dora García follows the activities of a small, Zurich-based group of Joyce enthusiasts who have met weekly for over thirty years to share their observations and interpretations of the Irish writer’s famed text. The film documents the group’s debates and discussions over their heavily annotated and well-thumbed copies of the book, depicting the importance of both the text and the rituals surrounding the group’s meetings. This screening was followed by an informal discussion led by Joe Brooker (English and Humanities, Birkbeck) and Finn Fordham (Royal Holloway London) This screening is presented in collaboration with LUX Artists Moving Image and with the support of Acción Cultural Española (AC/E).