LRB Films & Interviews

Short films, long films and interviews drawn from the pages of the LRB.

Seydou Keïta: The Theatre of Aspiration

Jeremy Harding, 21 August 2025

14 July 2016 · 02mins

Jeremy Harding examines the work of Malian portrait photographer Seydou Keïta and the lively collaboration between himself and his sitters in the years before Mail’s independence.

On the Killing of Osama bin Laden

Seymour M. Hersh and Christian Lorentzen, 21 August 2025

13 May 2016 · 43mins

Seymour Hersh talks to Christian Lorentzen about his piece for the LRB on the killing of Osama bin Laden and how the work of an investigative reporter has changed.

From Samuel Pepys to Crossrail

Andrew O’Hagan, 21 August 2025

15 December 2015 · 07mins

Andrew O’Hagan retraces Samuel Pepys’s infuriating journey to work and tries to cross Tottenham Court Road.

19 June 2015 · 1hr 01min

Will Self visits Prague for a walking tour in search of Franz Kafka’s genius loci. In the film, Will visits several Kafka sights as part of his research for a digital essay for the LRB, ‘Kafka’s Wound’, looking at Kafka's short story, ‘The Country Doctor’.