OFFSCREEN ON TOUR 2021 | Offscreen
A selection of several films at different locations.
PHASE IV
Restored version.
Two scientists investigating unusual ant activity in the Arizona desert find themselves under siege when the colony’s hive mind fights back. The only full-length feature directed by famed credits designer Saul Bass combines eco-horror thrills with awe-inspiring footage of antlife. Bow down to your insect overlords!
PHASE IV
Restored version.
Two scientists investigating unusual ant activity in the Arizona desert find themselves under siege when the colony’s hive mind fights back. The only full-length feature directed by famed credits designer Saul Bass combines eco-horror thrills with awe-inspiring footage of antlife. Bow down to your insect overlords!
PHASE IV
Restored version.
Two scientists investigating unusual ant activity in the Arizona desert find themselves under siege when the colony’s hive mind fights back. The only full-length feature directed by famed credits designer Saul Bass combines eco-horror thrills with awe-inspiring footage of antlife. Bow down to your insect overlords!
LAPSIS
A New Yorker pays for his brother's medical treatment by laying cables through the woods. Egged on by jaunty corporate messaging ("Challenge your status quo!"), he finds himself competing with robots, while other workers hint at dark conspiracies. This low-tech sci-fi parable skewers the gig economy with deadpan wit.
JALLIKATTU
An escaped buffalo wreaks havoc in an Indian village, stirring up primal instincts in the menfolk as they compete to catch the beast. This study of toxic testosterone at its most unhinged pelts you with astonishing music and imagery on its way towards an unforgettably hellish climax.
KINGDOM OF THE SPIDERS
The peerless William Shatner plays a vet investigating livestock deaths in rural Arizona. His flirtation with a visiting lady arachnologist is rudely interrupted when they realise pesticides have upset the balance of nature, sending an unstoppable army of slow-moving but deadly tarantulas towards the nearby town.
PHASE IV
Restored version.
Two scientists investigating unusual ant activity in the Arizona desert find themselves under siege when the colony’s hive mind fights back. The only full-length feature directed by famed credits designer Saul Bass combines eco-horror thrills with awe-inspiring footage of antlife. Bow down to your insect overlords!
SOYLENT GREEN
In 2022, Charlton Heston plays a cop whose investigation into a lawyer’s murder uncovers an unpalatable truth. This adaptation of Harry Harrison’s Make Room! Make Room! tackles pollution, overcrowding, social inequality - and adds a secret ingredient to the mix! Edward G Robinson is very moving in his final role.
POM POKO
Tanuki, according to Japanese folklore, are shape-shifting racoon-like creatures with unusually versatile testicles. When their bucolic way of life is threatened by urban expansion, the adorable critters fight back. Like many anime from Studio Ghibli, this enchanting fable packs a poignant ecological message.
STALKER
n a dystopian future, a "stalker" leads a writer and a professor through a polluted environment into a heavily guarded Forbidden Zone to search for a room that may grant wishes. A visionary work by a master filmmaker weaving camerawork and design into an extraordinary meditation on faith, dreams and desire.
PHASE IV
Two scientists investigating unusual ant activity in the Arizona desert find themselves under siege when the colony’s hive mind fights back. The only full-length feature directed by famed credits designer Saul Bass combines eco-horror thrills with awe-inspiring footage of antlife. Bow down to your insect overlords!
KOYAANISQATSI
The title of this experimental documentary is Hopi dialect for “life out of balance”. The filmmakers use time-lapse, slo-mo and sped up film of nature, cities, people and traffic to create an impressionistic portrait of humanity’s fraught relationship with the planet, all set to a mesmerising score by Philip Glass.
THE AMUSEMENT PARK
In 1973, Romero was hired to make a PSA about elder abuse, but the result was deemed too upsetting to be released, and the film was only rediscovered after the director's death. An elderly gent's day at the funfair turns into an unmistakably Romero-esque nightmare when he is ignored, exploited and mistreated.
NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD
A group of Pennsylvanians barricade themselves in an old farmhouse to remain safe from a horde of flesh-eating zombies that are ravaging the East Coast of the United States.
LONG WEEKEND
An Australian couple tries to fix their marriage with a camping trip to the beach in this Ozploitation classic. But they unthinkingly trash the environment - killing a kangaroo, starting fires, hacking down trees - so, after a tense build-up, nature gets its revenge via insects, birds and a literally creepy dugong.
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