Wed 9th April 2008
IF YOU HAD THREE HUSBANDS
A Performance of a Film, directed by Jess Haugh. A short film presenting ideas of relationships, accompanied by musicians and live voices. Inspired by Gertrude Stein's "If You had Three Husbands". "A viscerally embodied production of intoxifying proximity".
CAREFUL (Guy Maddin -Canada, 1992)
Set in the sleepy "Canadian Alpine" village of Tolzbad, where its citizens live in constant fear of setting off an avalanche if they talk too loudly or behave in a reckless fashion, "Careful is the equivalent of Victor Hugo slugging out Freud with John Waters egging them on inside a Maxfield Parrish painting." 1

Sunday 27th April 2008
SUSPIRIA (Dario Argento -Italy, 1977)
"Argento's deliriously artificial horror film owes as much to Georges Méliès and German Expressionism (specifically The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari) as it does to Jean Cocteau and Grimm fairy tales. [Its] visuals actively evoke a fairy tale fantastique, engaging and toying with the Technicolor glory of Disney's cartoon version of Snow White, a film the director had been obsessed with since youth." 1
KITCHEN SINK (Alison Maclean -NZ, 1989)
"The relationship that developed between the woman and the man/monster was reminiscent of myths and fairy tales. Containing almost no dialogue, KITCHEN SINK presented the story as a dreamlike succession of events. Cleverly structured, the film returned again and again to a few motifs - hair, water, eye and razor - reminiscent of early surrealist films such as Un Chien Andalou. These images, reinforced by an eerie soundtrack, had a gut-level impact on audiences, who gasped, laughed, and screamed." 1

Sunday 11th May 2008
MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO (Miyazaki -Japan, 1988) "this is a film which perfectly captures the naivite of childhood, a time when one can wholeheartedly believe in magical imaginary friends. Watching this film, it is impossible not to realise how much of our imaginations we have lost as we matured, and we may end up watching the way our own children play with a little more interest." 1
THE MYSTERIOUS GEOGRAPHIC EXPLORATIONS OF JASPER MORELLO (Anthony Lucas -Australia, 2005)
This may be a futuristic story, but its style and substance is firmly rooted in the 19th century with elements and themes from Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Robert Louis Stevenson, Jules Verne and Edgar Allen Poe.
Using a variety of techniques including computer graphics, miniatures and what appear to be shadow puppets, the result is a stunning synthesis of innovative animation and smart storytelling. In 27 minutes, this film accomplishes more than most feature films dare. 1

Sunday 25th May 2008
THE BABY OF MACON (Peter Greenaway -England, 1993) A "Difficult, challenging, brutal, grotesque, and darkly beautiful masterpiece that makes his previous scar to the collective unconscious THE COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE & HER LOVER(1989) look like BABE...Inspired by Greenaway having looked at an advertisement on a billboard featuring an infant as its graphic center of attention. The whole question of using images of innocence to gull people out of their faith, money and lives, and the profanation of said images in the process and the very ideas they represent, is the focus of the film. 1

Sunday 15th June 2008
HEDWIG & THE ANGRY INCH (John Cameron Mitchell, 2001) "Simply put, John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask’s film version of their Off-Broadway smash Hedwig and the Angry Inch is the year’s most enjoyable movie. It’s a bouncy, energetic, dynamic, loopily fun confection of rock’n’roll and gender dysphoria. It’s Rocky Horror for a new millennium; a post-punk odyssey of love and longing filled with wit and surprisingly poignant observations on the human condition." 1
Dress in drag to recieve free popcorn!

Sunday 29 June 2008
Autumn Season Finale, featuring:
THE PARASITIC FANTASY BAND
Live aerial film
DESILENCED CINEMA
Silent films with live soundtrack.
Featuring The Benka Boradovsky Bordello Band confronting Charlie Chaplin!