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7 August 2024: Pariah Genius + Asylum with Iain Sinclair & Chris Petit

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We’re delighted to present Pariah Genius, the new film by Chris Petit, Emma Matthews, Susan Stenger and Iain Sinclair, which chronicles the posthumous lives of cinema cannibal John Deakin, the subject of Iain Sinclair's new book, Pariah Genius, John Deakin & The Soho Court around Francis Bacon, The Biography of an Afterlife (Cheerio Publishing).

Also screening is Asylum (2000), the rarely seen film directed by Iain Sinclair and Chris Petit, and edited by Emma Matthews, starring Marina Warner, James Sallis, Michael Moorcock and Ed Dorn.

Iain Sinclair and Chris Petit will be present to introduce the evening. Books signed by Sinclair will be available for purchase during the event.