A really fun sounding scientific interlude at the Thames Festival this weekend: a cycle-in cinema.

Attendees cycle to the performance outside the Royal Festival Hall and hook their bikes up to the generator, thus powering the show. It isn’t made clear whether attendees have to cycle for the entire show but I imagine not as the programme is two hours long, featuring some Charlie Chaplin shorts followed by the premiere of Deva Palmier’s Southbank Unseen.

Southbank Unseen consists of four short films; the first three feature a clairvoyant, a surveilance detective and a twelve year old boy on the high end of the autism spectrum. The fourth features Professor Geraint Rees, Director of the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, discussing the previous three films from his point of view as a neuroscientist.

Cycle-In Cinema is 8-10pm, this Saturday and Sunday, on the east wall of the Royal Festival Hall. Free.