Piccinini's Picks – Free Films for Final Weekend
Piccinini’s Picks – Free Films Screenings for in Another’s Life Final Weekend
Saturday 10 + Sunday 11 June
City
Gallery Wellington, Civic Square
Free entry
From Tod Browning’s 1932 cult classic ‘Freaks’, to homegrown hit ‘Braindead’, this thoughtfully selected programme of Patricia Piccinini’s favourite films provides fresh insights into her interests and art practice.
While working on her ‘In Another Life’, City Gallery Wellington invited Patricia Piccinini to submit a list of films that she loves, that inspire her work, and/or address similar themes that her art work explores. The result is these four films screening on the final weekend of her exhibition. Don’t miss your chance to check out Piccinini’s captivating and extremely popular exhibition one last time.
'Braindead', (1992), dir. Peter
Jackson
Aka ‘Dead Alive’, 97 mins, Colour, R16
Some
things won’t stay down… even after they die.
Local
prodigy’s magnum opus may well be the last word in zombie
film. What begins as a nervous romance for naive young
Lionel soon turns into a blood-drenched orgy of limbs and
lawnmowers, as 1950s Wellington falls victim to a hideous
virus. (Patricia Piccinini had the poster of this film on
her wall for 10 years!)
'Breaking the Waves', (1996), dir.
Lars von Trier
158 mins, Colour, R16
Love is a mighty
power.
Significant art-house hit about obsessive faith
and self-sacrifice, set in a puritanical village on the
Scottish coast. A naive young woman (Emily Watson) marries a
worldy, charismatic oil-rigger, but their blissful union is
dealt a cruel blow when he is left debilitated by an
accident. Von Trier's bleak yet stirring religious
indictment/allegory is captured by an agitated camera,
though, like his heroine, his rare feat of film-making
bravado requires rigorous commitment and endurance.
'Freaks', (1932), dir. Todd Browning
64 mins, B+W,
R16
Can a full grown woman truly love a midget?
The
only film in history to exploit real-life 'mutants' is
actually a sensitive and fascinating piece of cinema
history. Perhaps misunderstood as a 'horror' movie, it is a
timeless tale of love, greed and revenge.
'Nightbreed',
(1990), dir. Clive Barker
97 mins, Colour, R16
Lori
thought she knew everything about her boyfriend… Lori was
wrong!
Novelist Clive Barker's follow-up film to
‘Hellraiser’ is again saturated with fantastic monsters and
bone-crunching visuals. A dark adult fantasy featuring
another of Piccinini’s favourite directors, David
Cronenberg.
City Gallery Wellington thanks Aro St Video for film blurbs and supply.
Saturday 10 June
10.30am
Freaks
11.45am Breaking the Waves
2.45pm Braindead
4.45pm
Nightbreed
Sunday 11 June
10.30am
Breaking the Waves
1.30pm Braindead
3.30pm Freaks
4.50pm
Nightbreed
Note: All films will be screened on DVD format.
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