SCREENINGS

 

Saturday March 19 at 20:00 

Party Girl (1995), Daisy von Scherler Mayer

 

Saturday March 26 at 20:00

BOOM!(1968), Joseph Losey

Friday April 01 at 17:00

Saturday April 02 at 18:30
The Monastery (2006), Pernille Rose Grønkjær

Saturday April 16 at 20:00
CYBERPUNK AND IMMORTAL WOMEN
a presentation by Jack Brennan and Janina Pedan
Cyberpunk (1990), Marianne Trench

Saturday April 23 
16:00-19:00
IKEBANA hosted by Ben Toms and Janina Pedan
from  18:00
DOUBLE FEMALE TROUBLE PART I
Le Grand Jeu (1934), Jacques Feyder
Vertigo (1958), Alfred Hitchcock
Dead Ringer (1964), Paul Henreid
Sisters (1973), Brian De Palma
Obsession (1976), Brian De Palma
Possession (1981), Andrzej Zulawski

Sunday April 24
DOUBLE FEMALE TROUBLE PART II
Dead Again (1991), Kenneth Branagh
Femme Fatale (2002), Brian De Palma
Black Swan (2010), Darren Aronofsky
+PLUS+
A Stolen Life (1946), Curtis Bernhardt

Saturday April 30 at 21:00
Phoebe Blatton (The Coelacanth Press) presents:
Portrait of Queenie (1964) + a surprise short, Michael Orrom

Saturday May 7 as the sun sets until it reappears
I Was Still Standing When I Started Crying My Fucking Eyes Out
20:00
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928), Carl Theodor Dreyer
following with a live composition by Ectopia
23:00
Sidsel Christensen presents: 
Boogiewoman(2004), Sidsel Christensen 
Godzilla: King of the Monsters (1998),produced by Nick Freand Jones
24:00
Cameron Irving serving Tequila sunrises mixed with tears into the early morning

TEQUILA AND TEARS 

by Cameron Irving

 

To mark the final event at HOTEL GARDEROBE, I set an unrealistic goal to keep the party going till sunrise. So,I set up a bar serving Tequila Sunrise cocktails. To add sickly melancholy, each cocktail would include a single tear. I managed to extract the tears from some locals and added them to the mixture. I sold maybe five cocktails and gave twice as many away.
We packed up around 2AM, and I cycled back home feeling like a mobile bar with my grenadine substitute, two bottles of San Juan tequila and two or three cartons of orange juice. I’ve never liked tequila anyway, I don’t think it even gets me drunk though I knocked back a few at the event to cope with my fatigue and a general unease at flogging anything to my friends or their friends.
So, I’m edging my way back towards home on my bicycle with heavy cartons of orange juice in my rucksack and a bottle of something I thought would suffice as grenadine. I’m aware that I have my laptop in the rucksack, and that the liquids might be seeping into my computer I took with me. I get home and open up the bag. Sure enough, the orange juice, the grenadine substitute and the San Juan has leaked into the laptop. I panic. I open the laptop and turn it on. It flickers, and to my surprise the screen has filled with the liquids at roughly the same ratio of the Tequila Sunrise cocktail. The liquids swim behind the screen forming an orangey screensaver or wallpaper or whatever the term is.
I have this habit of squeezing liquid crystal/plasma screens. I think I have always does this. I did so as a kid with digital calculators. I would squeeze  – sometimes with my teeth – any ubiquitous liquid crystal screens I would come across. I do it with my iPhone. That night, watching my best cocktail of the night miraculously form in front of my eyes, I couldn’t resist, and gave the screen a good long squeeze with my thumb and forefinger. Sure enough, I got the desired effect. You know, when the illusional space disperses and you’re left with a rippling aura effect where your thumb was. Except this time, I was being heavy handed and really went for it – like when you’re on E and you have to really grip something to remind yourself of a physicality that the drug is overriding. Anyway, I wasn’t high, just a little tired, and maybe a bit tense. So, I pressed it really hard, near the bottom of my new orange screen (complete with red sediment) and let go. Rather than disappearing after a few seconds, the smudgy liquid crystal aura remained.
Another thing about liquid crystal/plasma screens is that they get hot. I could already feel my thighs getting warm from the computer’s battery, but placing the back of my hand on the screen I felt the smudgy aura to be even hotter than the rest. I worried that the laptop would be ruined now that it was full of cocktail, but I was also horrified to feel the smudge getting hotter and hotter, and instead of dispersing which would be the orthodox entropic route it started to increase. Getting larger and hotter by the second, the aura began to dip into the sediment and dissolve into the liquid effect.I became anxious, not because my laptop was fucked, but at the nauseating sublime moment that was happening behind the screen.
At about 4.30 A.M my bedroom starts to get lighter. The grey light pours through the blinds, and I look out at another overcast morning, and then back to my laptop, the smudgy aura reducing, the grenadine substitute and orange juice getting darker – blood red. Then my Mac does that thing when there has been no activity for a while, and dulled the screen. My fingerprints and dust now visible, and that little beach ball of death begins to whirl. So I grab the lid and slam it. Some orange goo oozed from the USB socket and dabbing it with my finger I noticed how sweet and metallic it tasted.
Saturday May 7 as the sun sets until it reappears
I Was Still Standing When I Started Crying My Fucking Eyes Out
20:00
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928), Carl Theodor Dreyer
following with a live composition by Ectopia
23:00
Sidsel Christensen presents:
Boogiewoman(2004), Sidsel Christensen 
Godzilla: King of the Monsters (1998), produced by Nick Freand Jones
24:00
Cameron Irving improvising late into the night
Jack Brennan playing a moody set
+PLUS+ special guests

Saturday April 30 at 21:00
Phoebe Blatton (The Coelacanth Press) presents:
Portrait of Queenie (1964) + a surprise short.
The story of Queenie Watts, jazz singer of the Ironbridge Tavern, East India Dock Road, Poplar, London.
BANK HOLIDAY WEEKEND SPECIAL
 

 Saturday April 23
PART I
18:00 Le Grand Jeu (1934), Jacques Feyder
19:50 Vertigo (1958), Alfred Hitchcock
22:00 Dead Ringer (1964), Paul Henreid
24:00 Sisters (1973), Brian De Palma
01:45 Obsession (1976), Brian De Palma
03:40 Possession (1981), Andrzej Zulawski

Sunday April 24
PART II
18:00 A Kiss Before Dying (1991), James Dearden
19:40 Dead Again (1991), Kenneth Branagh
21:45 Lost Highway (1997), David Lynch
24:00 Perfect Blue (1998), Satoshi Kon
01:30 Femme Fatale (2002), Brian De Palma
03:40 Black Swan (2010), Darren Aronofsky

+PLUS+ 
Doppelganger (1993), Avi Nesher
A Stolen Life (1946), Curtis Bernhardt
 Gimme More, Britney Spears
Saturday April 16 at 20:00

A presentation by Jack Brennan and Janina Pedan













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INFORMATION WANTS TO BE FREE. Come and adhere to this old hacker maxim as we present an hour long documentary on the twentieth century's most striking and believable eschatology.

+ p l u s +

Major Kusanagi, Aeon Flux, and Molly Millions (From Ghost in the Shell, Aeon Flux, and William Gibson's Sprawl novels respectively), represent three of the most compelling women appearing in recent Sci-Fi. All represent quite singular moral modes of operation; they also happen to be kind of immortal. What are the implications of this? Discussion will be lead and monologues are welcome. For the purposes of research, should you wish to conduct any, we are talking about Kusanagi as she appears in the 1995 Anime, Aeon the cartoon, and Molly in the book Neuromancer.

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Pending the success of the UK ground mail service we offer Johnny Mnemonic, based on William Gibson's short story of the same name. Join Keanu Reeves, a human data courier who can hold "nearly 80 Gigs of data in his head", as he goes on the run in the Boston-Atlanta sprawl. Widely regarded as a complete failure, it nevertheless features a character based on Molly Millions, and so finds a home here.
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The Monastery (2006), Pernille Rose Grønkjær 

Saturday April 02
at 18:30





BOOM!(1968), Joseph Losey

Saturday 26 March
at 20:00
 



PARTY GIRL (1995), Daisy von Scherler Mayer

Saturday 19 March
at 20:00



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