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When Tom Six presented The Human Centipede: First Sequence at Leeds back in 2009, he promised that the sequel, apart from being 100% medically inaccurate, would also make the original look like My Little Pony. Two years later and after a brief spell on the BBFC’s ‘banned’ list later, The Human Centipede 2 is here [...]
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A subtle and powerful political drama, The Prize tells its story with haunting originality, through the eyes of a seven-year-old child featuring beautiful cinematography and fantastic performances particularly by the young lead. Ceci and her mother have moved to a dilapidated beach house on the remote Argentine coast for fear of the repressive military regime. [...]
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Innovatively blending documentary and fiction and bending generic expectations at every turn, Nicolás Pereda has constructed a startlingly original feature with Summer of Goliath. It is summer in Huilotepec, a rural community in the Mexican countryside, where a placid atmosphere belies the intrigues stirring among the townspeople. Teresa is convinced that her husband has left [...]
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Continuing the creative boom of the recent Romanian ‘new wave’, Adrian Sitaru’s Best Intentions is a beautifully observed and understated drama of universally recognisable family neuroses. When thirty-something Alex’s mother is hospitalized with a stroke, the caring son’s life gets off track. At the hospital he finds himself in a burlesque kind of human zoo [...]
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Jan Zabeil’s highly original and atmospheric debut feature is an otherworldly survival tale exploring divergent European and African sensibilities. A young German actor is travelling in an unnamed African country. He meets an old fisherman near a river, who takes him deep into the wilderness in his wooden boat. He wakes up to find his [...]
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The Other Side of Sleep takes the small town murder story and subjects it to a dreamlike metamorphosis, reinvigorating familiar themes with deeply unsettling and atmospheric results. One morning Arlene wakes in the woods beside the body of a young woman. Fear and suspicion spread through the rural Irish community. Increasingly drawn to the girl’s [...]
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Dissecting one traumatic event with incredible cinematic invention, Koen Mortier’s 22nd of May ricochets from realist drama to taut thriller to dreamlike surreal fantasy. One seemingly ordinary day turns to disaster in a single moment for shopping centre security agent Sam as a bomb explodes in his workplace. Shellshocked and disorientated, he encounters victims and [...]
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Along with Aliens, we’re celebrating another birthday in our Alien Encounters programme, and for The Day the Earth Stood Still, it’s the big Six Zero! Standing the test of time as much for its message of peace and commentary on the Cold War as for its iconic giant robot Gort, one of the greatest 1950s [...]
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Exploring the terrifying thought that the enemy is not ‘out there’, but here among us, Invasion preys on our paranoia and fears of losing our identity, in a psychological sci-fi full of suspense and timely political and social subtext. Miles Bennell (Kevin McCarthy) notices something is not right with the community of Santa Mira, as [...]
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Architects of Harmonic Rooms & Records-Moving Image present a selection of video documents from their archives that reveal a world of ingenious, underground musicians and artists. This includes a video collaboration with Harappian Night Recordings celebrating the rich psychedelic world of obscure 1960s/70s Asian horror movies, a video profile of the renowned John Fahey/Robbie Basho [...]
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Films screening on Friday 4th November, 2011
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