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Tue 3 June, 8.15pm: Mirror
While Mirror, like all Tarkovsky’s films, pays homage to painting, music, and poetry, it also makes plain that the Russian director understood Mnemosyne to be the mother of the muses. Being a poet, he sought not only to retrieve the past but to reveal its essence – and in so doing to redeem an inherently flawed present.
Wed 4 June, 8.15pm: Millennium Film Journal No. 81 Launch Screening
This programme celebrates the launch of the Millennium Film Journal No. 81 “Dedication”. Reflecting themes of grief and resilience, the screening includes work from recently departed artists who left their indelible mark on experimental film history, alongside new work from emerging filmmakers who push film language to its ecstatic limits.
Thu 5 June, 8.15pm: Amour
Violent incursion into domestic sanctum has long been a trope in Haneke's cinema, but the trespass that initiates Amour differs from the invasions the Austrian master has previously manufactured as metaphors for an ever-threatening universe. Here the intruders breach asylum not as harbingers of torture, but as witnesses to the end of a protracted tragedy.
Fri 6 June, 8.15pm: Code Unknown
Composed almost entirely of brilliantly shot, single-take vignettes focusing on characters connected to one seemingly minor incident on a Paris street, Haneke’s film – with an outstanding international cast headlined by Juliette Binoche – is a revelatory examination of racial inequality and the failure of communication in an increasingly diverse modern landscape.
Sat 7 June, 5.30pm: The Seventh Continent
Addressing themes that would inform much of his later work – the breakdown of society, violence and the media – Haneke's first theatrical feature is a disturbing portrait of familial disintegration which he describes as a depiction of his native Austria's "progressive emotional glaciation".
Sat 7 June, 8pm: Benny’s Video
The centrepiece in Haneke’s acclaimed trilogy on actual incidents of unexplained violence, the film tells the chilling story of a teenage boy who videotapes every aspect of his life. As he becomes desensitised to violent televisual imagery, his impulses become fatal in this refreshingly un-sensational portrait of homicidal urges.
Sun 8 June, 6pm: 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance
Haneke's articulate critique of the isolating effects of western society, the media and television in particular, is composed of an intricate series of unrelated scenes, culminating in an apparently motiveless act of violence.
Sun 8 June, 8pm: Benny’s Video
The centrepiece in Haneke’s acclaimed trilogy on actual incidents of unexplained violence, the film tells the chilling story of a teenage boy who videotapes every aspect of his life. As he becomes desensitised to violent televisual imagery, his impulses become fatal in this refreshingly un-sensational portrait of homicidal urges.
Calendar
Tue 03 Jun 8:15pm
Mirror
Mirror
Wed 04 Jun 8:15pm
Millennium Film Journal No. 81 Launch Screening
Millennium Film Journal No. 81 Launch Screening
Thu 05 Jun 8:15pm
Amour
Amour
Fri 06 Jun 8:15pm
Code Unknown
Code Unknown
Sat 07 Jun 5:30pm
The Seventh Continent
The Seventh Continent
Sat 07 Jun 8:00pm
Benny’s Video
Benny’s Video
Sun 08 Jun 6:00pm
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance
