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CULT JAPAN
3 JULY – 2 SEPTEMBER 2015
This celebration of the strange in postwar
Japanese cinema sold out several
sessions of underground and cult classics,
as it plumbed Japan’s unique take on
horror, action, the excessive and the
surreal. The program also featured a full
retrospective of animator Hayao Miyazaki’s
hand-crafted fables, including
Spirited
Away
2001 and
Princess Mononoke
1997.
THE WESTERN
11 SEPTEMBER – 15 NOVEMBER 2015
Inspired by the mythic vision of the
frontier and its depictions of confrontations
between man and nature, and civilisation
and freedom, this program surveyed the
Western from its roots in silent cinema
through to the present day.
CLOCKWISE FROM FAR LEFT /
Spirited Away
(still, detail) 2001 /
Director: Hayao Miyazaki /
Courtesy: Madman Entertainment
Screening of
Go West
1925 /
Live accompaniment: Percussimo /
November 2015 / Photograph:
Eduardo Viera
Wurlitzer organ performance for
DerGolem
1920 /Liveaccompaniment:
David Bailey / January 2015 /
Photograph: Brodie Standen
Live set-up for performers the hazards
of swimming naked accompanying
The Passion of Joan of Arc
1928 /
January 2015 / Photograph:
Mark Sherwood
For A Few Dollars More
(still, detail)
1965 / Director: Sergio Leone /
Courtesy: Park Circus
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CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT /
Screening of
Go West
1925 /
November 2015 / Live
accompaniment: Percussimo /
Photograph: Eduardo Viera
A screening of
Blue Velvet
1986
during ‘David Lynch: Between Two
Worlds’ / April 2015 / Photograph:
Mark Sherwood
The Cool World
(still, detail) 1953 /
Director: Shirley Clarke / Courtesy:
National FilmAnd Sound Archive
Australia / Zipporah Films
Erkennen und Verfolgen (War at
a Distance)
(still, detail) 2003 /
Director: Harun Farocki / Courtesy:
Video Data Bank, Chicago
Ambavi Suramis tsikhitsa
(The Legend of Suram Fortress)
(still, detail) 1984 / Directors:
Sergei Parajanov, Dodo Abashidze /
Courtesy: RUSCICO - Russian
Cinema Council
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