ATTENBERG AND AFTER SCHOOL

MODERN OUTSIDER DOUBLE BILL 

ATTENBERG AND AFTER SCHOOL

This week’s double bill screenings looks at how modern filmmakers approach the subject of the social outsider. First up is ATTENBERG by Athina Rachel Tsangari, produced by the same team who brought us DOGTOOTH. ATTENBERG tells the story Marina a social recluse unable to cope with the real world, and unable to connect with human of the species, which she has grown to dislike intently, she seeks solace in the films of David Attenborough using them as guide to navigate her way through life. ATTENBERG is a unique compelling an inventive take on the life of the social outsider. Next up is AFTER SCHOOL by Antonio Campos is an inventive, intelligent study of alienation and the cult of the outsider. When a student captures the death of two popular female students on camera their lives are to be memorialised as part of a campus wide healing process. Set amongst an atmosphere of paranoia, mistrust and unease among the students AFTER SCHOOL captures the adolescent anxieties of the middle classes while cleverly blending in the voyeurism afforded youth culture via the developments technology and social media. This thought provoking, powerful film plugs into the omnipresent voyeurism that has enveloped our culture, a must see if you love films that ask questions of the viewers. 

PRIDE SPECIAL DOUBLE BILL

TAXI  ZUM KLO (UNCUT) AND NIGHTHAWKS

This Pride CULTIVATE will be screening a PRIDE special double bill with two mesmerizing gay classics. With the restored lost gay classic TAXI ZUM KLO (taxi to the toilet) the uncut version. This vibrant, satirical, revolutionary approach to gay cinema crafts a three dimensional vision of what it was like to be gay in Berlin in the late 70's and early 80's PRE-AIDS directed by video artist turned director Frank Ripploh famous for his noise and video collage work. Played back to back with Ron Peck and Paul Hallam's 1978 controversial classic NIGHTHAWKS one of the first British films to accurately depict the life of a gay man in London. Two films, two cities, one story.
Monday the 26TH August Bank Holiday

FRANK RIPPLOH

DOGTOWN AND Z-BOYS and LAST EXIT TO BROOKLYN

THIS WEEKS DOUBLE BILL SCREENING

DOGTOWN AND Z-BOYS and LAST EXIT TO BROOKLYN

EVERY LITTLE THING AND THE IDIOTS

EVERY LITTLE THING AND THE IDIOTS

THE MENTALIST SPECIAL

This week’s double bill is in conjunction with NOUS MAGAZINE and their week long festival spotlighting the changing perspectives of mental health issues. To compliment the event Cultivate will be screening the lyrical French documentary EVERY LITTLE THING by Nicolas Phillibert. This intimate and sympathetic yet honest portrait of life in an institution following the life of the patients and staff at the LA BORDE psychiatric institution. The documentary charts the preparation for their summer play, which is staged within the grounds every year. Subtlety questioning what society deems normal or abnormal Philibert opens a window into a world widely derided but very rarely understood. Next up is work of Dogma 95’s co-creature Lars Von Trier; THE IDIOTS sticking to the manifesto Von Trier creates a micro society to examines the boundaries between sanity and insanity, normal and abnormal, establishing the lines between seemingly inappropriate excessive behaviour, brought into sharper view by the fact that what is consider inappropriate and anti-social behaviour when it is praticed by the majority. The Idiots looks at subverting the norm, so what was once perceived as questionable behaviour is now deemed conventional and what would previously have been deemed as normal is now viewed with mistrust? The Idiots hold a mirror up to society and forces the viewers to look at themselves.