Duplicities
A series of exquisitely composed films that invite layered readings of the contemporary city.
Curated by Mike Aling.
Tuesday 1st November, 7.30pm:
Alphaville, Jean-Luc Godard, 1965
1960’s Modernist Paris reimagined as a technocratic dictatorship on a future alien planet!
Tuesday 8th November, 7.30pm:
The Trial, Orson Welles, 1962
Welles’ self-declared finest film explores the convoluted bureaucratic matrix of Kafka’s seminal novel - primarily set in the sublime abandonment of Paris’ Gare d’Orsay.
Tuesday 15th November, 7.30pm:
Metropia, Tarik Saleh, 2009
A meticulously crafted animation in which digital image layering techniques depict a future Europe of stratified infrastructures.
Tuesday 22nd November, 7.30pm:
Wings of Desire, Wim Wenders, 1987
A metaphysical masterpiece that postulates a shared Berlin where angels roam amongst the living.
Tuesday 29th November, 7.30pm:
Synecdoche, New York, Charlie Kaufman, 2008
Both gut-wrenchingly sad and hugely uplifting, Kaufman weaves an intricate lattice of real, unreal, imagined and interpreted New Yorks.
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