Offscreenings 2016 | Offscreen
The Offscreenings program presents a fine selection of special, new and unreleased films, giving a platform to independent, non-conformist filmmakers as well as to movies at the cutting edge of contemporary cinema. These films are noted for their artistic originality, unique vision and inventive approach to the medium and the genre. Come and see the cult films of tomorrow.
Evolution
The sole inhabitants of a mysterious island are women and little boys. Ten-year-old Nicolas starts to ask questions and digs up frightening answers. Hadzihalilovic’s latest film creates a phantasmagoric nightmare world where beauty intertwines with the grotesque, her poetic vision painted by Belgian cinematographer Manuel Dacosse.
11 Minutes
What do a jealous husband, his sexy wife, a sleazeball director, a drug trafficker, a team of paramedics, a female student and a flock of nuns on their lunch break have in common? They are all pawns in Jerzy Skolimowski’s carefully constructed network narrative that highlights eleven climactic minutes.
Evolution (second screening)
The sole inhabitants of a mysterious island are women and little boys. Ten-year-old Nicolas starts to ask questions and digs up frightening answers. Hadzihalilovic’s latest film creates a phantasmagoric nightmare world where beauty intertwines with the grotesque, her poetic vision painted by Belgian cinematographer Manuel Dacosse.
The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin
Often given the moniker of ‘the Canadian David Lynch’, this documentary walks you through the mystery of Maddin with behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with his most important stars and sympathizers (Isabella Rossellini, Udo Kier, Kenneth Anger). Awarded at the Venice Film Festival.
The Forbidden Room
The result of Maddin’s interactive ‘Séances’ is a lengthy fever dream that journeys into the centre of the director’s own cinematic universe. Multi-layered, tongue-in-cheek and surreal: a torrent of images and scenes that takes its visitors on a hazy ride to the other side of the looking glass.
Heart of a Dog
What at first seems to be a portrait of Laurie Anderson's musically gifted terrier Lolabelle, grows into a touching yet playful reflection on mortality, our present society and the death of her partner Lou Reed. A personal meditation that's variously funny, heart-warming, moving and deeply spiritual.
A la Recherche de l'Ultra-Sex
High up in their spaceship circling the earth, a team of astronauts watches helplessly on as a pandemic turns the world population into sex-crazed lunatics. This new film by the pranksters of “Message à Caractère Informatif” dubs an amalgam of vintage porn clips with a hilarious new audio track.
Crumbs
The African plains are dominated by a hovering spacecraft. In this contemplative afro-futuristic sci-fi film, Michael Jackson, Nazi’s and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles make up the ingredients that chain a love story to surreal, political antics, set in the unusual landscape of post-apocalyptic Ethiopia.
Bone Tomahawk
A search party for two missing villagers lands a gang of cowboys in the nest of a cannibalistic caveman tribe. This explosive debut film from up-and-coming prodigy S. Craig Zahler is a blood-soaked horror western that is carried by a range of cult actors, with Kurt Russell taking the lead.
Embrace of the Serpent
A terminally ill explorer pins his last hope for salvation on the healing power of a rare medicinal plant in the Amazon. A shaman leads him on his quest. Shot in striking black-and-white photography, the spiritual quality of their journey calls to mind Werner Herzog, Miguel Gomes and “Apocalypse Now”.
High-Rise
A young doctor moves into his new apartment in an enormous tower block, where the poor tenants stay on the lower floors, while the upper classes party it up on the top. Social lines begin to blur in a look at a microcosm of a world gone mad. Brit rebel Ben Wheatley takes on J.G. Ballard’s classic dystopic novel in a hyper-stylised pitch-black satire.
High-Rise (second screening)
A young doctor moves into his new apartment in an enormous tower block, where the poor tenants stay on the lower floors, while the upper classes party it up on the top. Social lines begin to blur in a look at a microcosm of a world gone mad. Brit rebel Ben Wheatley takes on J.G. Ballard’s classic dystopic novel in a hyper-stylised pitch-black satire.
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