//Screening No. 15 Jean-Luc Godard's Contempt (Le Mépris, 1963)\\\

Screening No. 15

We'd like to invite you all to our third in the series 'In The Event of a Catastrophe', Jean-Luc Godard's Contempt (Le Mépris, 1963). Although this film needs little introduction you may be wondering why we have chosen to screen it as part of the 'In The Event of a Catastrophe', series. Well we feel the the film has real tension, predominantly felt in the protagonists marriage, that tension which one feels in the event of a looming catastrophe. Another dynamic along this theme is the references made to Homer's Odyssey that perhaps in relation to Theodore Adorno's 1947 essay entitled "Excursus I: Odysseus or Myth and Enlightenment" (a piece that became popular in the 60's), which explains the theory of the "enlightenment myth" which claims to found all western society in that of the ancient Greek's reinforcing chosen laws and systems of hierarchy. It is this entrapment that looms over us as a catastrophe that has already happened, one that we cannot escape from.

See the legendary Fritz Lang playing himself as an exiled Hollywood director and Bridget Bardot as the Siren temptress. Set on the Italian coast the cinematography is mesmerising and romantic.

Hope to see you there.

Rachel and Lydia

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A photo from the first film night....

Setting up for the first time at Franks Campari Bar, all the way back in September...

Photo by Lydia Skawinski-Shearer (http://www.flickr.com/photos/skawinska/)

// Film Screening Tuesday 8th of December, Tsai Ming-Liang's 'The Hole' (1998) \\

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Screening No. 12

WHEN :: Tuesday 8th December. Drinks - 7.30pm, Screening - 8pm
WHERE :: Sassoon Gallery, (Behind Bar Story, under Peckham Rye train station arches // (FIND US HERE: http://www.thesassoongallery.co.uk/SASSOON_GALLERY/CONTACT.html)
PRICE :: FREE

WHAT :: Tsai Ming-Liang's 'The Hole' (1998)

Dear All,

We'd like to invite you all to our second in the series 'In The Event of a Catastrophe', Tsai Ming Liang's The Hole.

A virus has hit Taiwan causing people to behave like cockroach's. Quarantined areas have been established, but some people refuse to go. We follow the lives of two (verging on voyeuristic) people living above and below each other in this uninhabitable land. A bleak and dark film, cut with short campy sequences; The Hole won the FIPRESCI award at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.

Please check our blog, www.skawinskiandmarshallfilms.blogspot.com, for futher info.

Hope to see you there.

Rachel and Lydia

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