- Wondermental cinema can be a politically discursive art form, with its ability to question, subvert, oppose and rebel. This programme presents an array of recent works chosen for their political engagement with the idea of empire, whether overt or subtle, asking you to think again. Controlled fury at the hypocrisy of the ‘priveleged’, the quietly [...]Click to read more about this film »
- Set in Poland in the early ‘80s, this is a beautiful film about love, rebellion and coming of age. Janek, 18, is the lead singer in a punk band and Basia is the girl he falls for. But when her socialist father is arrested by the police, she wants nothing more to do with Janek, [...]Click to read more about this film »
- Catfish documents the story of director Ariel’s brother Nev, a photographer, and an 8 year old artist who makes contact online after painting her own version of one of Nev’s photographs. However, this is no tale of friendship and niceties, as the relationship begins to entwine Nev’s whole circle of family and friends in a [...]Click to read more about this film »
- All is not well in sleepy suburbia….Woken in the middle of the night, teenager Sara finds her parents tied to their bed by a terrifying intruder. An intricate hour-glass filled with blood is placed before her and she is told that she has 60 seconds to choose which of her parents should die. If she [...]Click to read more about this film »
- Utterly hypnotic and spell-binding, Sharon Lockhart’s minimalist exploration of landscape and labour as a female clamdigger works the low tides of dawn and dusk. Shot in only two takes with a static camera, we are lulled into meditation by the calm repetition of her (arduous) task in the mudflats, surrounded by the rolling mist and [...]Click to read more about this film »
- If you can’t make Fanomenon Night of the Dead X you can see all of the features in Leeds Town Hall on Sunday 7th November for just £20. We kick off with Mutant Girls Squad, the latest Japanese splatterfest to satiate all you gorehounds! Australia’s The Loved Ones follows with plenty of blood and guts to please any self-respecting [...]Click to read more about this film »
- Ah, Hollywood. Light of our lives, thorn in our sides…This programme, mostly screened on 16mm, celebrates the delicious way wondermental filmmakers continue to subvert Hollywood and media ‘norms’, by turns dismembering it to re-member it as something new; pointing to the queer aspects that are present either through absence or identification; a deconstruction of linear [...]Click to read more about this film »
- ‘Mare’s Tail is an epic flight into inner space…the film-maker’s personal odyssey, which becomes the odyssey of each of us. It is a man’s life transposed into a visual realm…There are spots before your eyes, as when you look at the sun that flames and burns. We look at distant moving forms and flash through [...]Click to read more about this film »
- For the first time ever, Japanese cult filmmakers Noboru Iguchi (The Machine Girl), Yoshihiro Nishimura (Tokyo Gore Police, Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl) and Tak Sakaguchi (Versus) have joined forces to bring you the action comedy splatterfest that is Mutant Girls Squad! On her 16th birthday Rin discovers she is a mutant when government agents [...]Click to read more about this film »
- ‘Transformation is the thing’ states Larry Jordan at the beginning of his new film, Cosmic Alchemy. This selection of films focuses on the magical transformations that can occur through entering into the material of life. From Jordan’s hotly anticipated and stunning work, to Rebello’s great new piece full of substantial questions, to Rouhi and Fouchard’s [...]Click to read more about this film »
