Opening Tomorrow, Roman Polanski: Actor & Director, BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels

BOZAR will host Roman Polanski: Actor & Director curated by the Łódź Museum of Cinematography. The show retraces the career of one of the great masters of cinema through photographs and posters.

The Aesthetica Short Film Festival, Category Winners

The Aesthetica Short Film Festival – the latest addition to the British film festival circuit – threw open its doors last Thursday night.

Sometimes in Manchester the Brightest Light is from a Match, The Manchester Contemporary

Manchester is a city of draughtsmen and women, and it has always been a place where hierarchies are levelled. On the other hand, the city’s interest in drawing has as much to do with the weather.

Taryn Simon: A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters, Tate

It is no surprise that Tate has extended the run of artist Taryn Simon’s exhibition A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters until January 2012. This gives us time, and time is one’s ally.

ASFF Opens – 150 Films. 15 Venues. 4 Days. York, UK

ASFF opens Thursday 4 November in York. Four days of films, talks, parties, networking and some of the best innovative cinema around. Join us in York for a fantastic weekend of film.

Crunch: The Art and Music Festival, Hay-on-Wye

The 4th edition of Crunch: the Art and Music Festival at Hay promises to be an extravaganza of contemporary art, talks and debates, new music, comedy and cabaret. Entitled Awake in the Universe.

Aesthetica Short Film Festival: Meet the Filmmakers Event, Merchant Adventurers’ Hall, York

Spanning across 4 days, 15 venues with 150 films screening, ASFF opens this Thursday and features a selection of films, a programme of talks and discussions from industry leaders and more.

40 Exhibition, 75 Artists, 200 Works, Hereford Photography Festival

Hereford Photography Festival is the UK’s longest running photography festival featuring over 75 artists and documentary photographers from across the world in more than 40 exhibitions.

The Alienation Effect, Savage Presents Jean Michel Jarre and Cezary Bodzianowski’s Tea Back, Spike Island, Bristol

Two shows run parallel to each other at Spike Island, with a variety of motifs exploring common themes: alienation by displacement and its significance in the creation/destruction of meaning.

onedotzero presents adventures in motion festival, BFI Southbank

onedotzero isn’t just one of the leading authorities in digital arts, they are one of our favourites, so when we heard that their adventures in motion festival was to return to BFI, we were more than excited.

The Artist’s Playground, Carsten Höller: Experience, New Museum, New York

The New Museum will present the first New York survey exhibition of the work of German artist Carsten Höller. Over 20 years, Höller has created a world that is equal parts laboratory and test site.

Rediscovering Masterworks of World Cinema, To Save and Project: The Ninth MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation

To Save and Project: The 9th MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation, the annual festival of preserved and restored films from archives, studios and distributions is on show at MoMA.

Aesthetica Short Film Festival, Online Exclusives, Sean Pruen

To celebrate the launch of the Aesthetica Short Film Festival, we are running interviews with filmmakers throughout October. Aesthetica spoke to Sean Pruen, Producer of the music video The Deep.

Opening Today, Rural; Urban Dialogues, Urban Perspectives, Orion Contemporary, London

For the first time in history over half the world’s population lives in the city. Orion Contemporary’s forthcoming show takes the work of artists who present their vision of the urban and the rural.

The Cross-Fertilization of Art; Design, Tokujin Yoshioka’s Waterfall, Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney

In his current exhibition, Waterfall, now showing at Sherman Contemporary in Sydney, Yoshioka explores the myriad associations conjured by water although not in the guises one might expect.

ASFF, Inside Views: Discussions From The Industry, York

On 4 November ASFF will bring you insights from industry professionals on a wide variety of topics. Hear behind-the-scenes stories and filmmaking wisdom from a diverse selection of speakers.

Subtle Refinement, Mathias Poledna / Florian Pumhösl, Raven Row

For the current exhibition at Raven Row, Mathias Poledna and Florian Pumhösl have each created a single expansive new work. Poledna has produced a 35mm film for the ground floor.

Don’t Miss, Stuart McAlpine Miller, Hay Hill Gallery

Stuart McAlpine Miller graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 1990. Having worked to develop his unique style, Miller is concentrating his attentions on an exciting new series of work.

Open Eye Gallery Liverpool Presents, Mitch Epstein; Chris Steele-Perkins

Open Eye Gallery has been one of the UK’s leading photography spaces since 1977, and is the only gallery dedicated to photography in the North West. 2011 represents an exciting milestone.

Aiming Towards Extreme Mediocrity, Jaakko Mattila, Lowest Common Denominator, James Hockey & Foyer Galleries, UCA

On show at the James Hockey & Foyer Galleries, part of the University for the Creative Arts in Farnham, is international artist Jaakko Mattila with his new exhibition Lowest Common Denominator.