screenings
introduction
For Unsound 2010 and our HORROR theme, UK audio/visual duo Jigoku put together a program of bloodthirsty gems screened from VHS at midnight. They included the weird, the forgotten and the legendary. The program was a resounding success.
Now Jigoku are back, to create a film series for Unsound 2011, centered on obscure and mind-bending Sci-Fi cinema.
Screenings take place at midnight each day in Kino Pod Baranami on Krakow's Main Square. They include an old-fashioned midnight to dawn movie marathon to kick off the series.
We are also creening the documentary "In Search of The Unsound," produced by PlayGround Docs.
Directed by Emilio Guerra and G.Sal-Lari, this film was shot during Unsound Krakow 2010.
The filmmakers describe it as follows:
"Horror is an essential element in modern music that aspires to break sonic boundaries and generate new spaces for expression and emotions. The Polish Unsound festival, celebrated every autumn in the cold climate of Krakow, knows that all to well, and that's why the 2012 edition had the concept of horror as its central theme, with artists such as Ben Frost and Demdike Stare. We went with the intention of exploring horror's place in music, led by journalist Philip Sherburne, our guide from place to place, across artist to artist, and who led our reflections through the labyrinth of emotions that is Unsound."Jigoku's Future Shock Film Season - Opening Marathon
08.10.11 // 00:00 // Kino Pod Baranami
Jigoku’s film series starts with an all-night marathon featuring the documentary “Future Shock” (1972, US, dir. Alexander Grasshoff), Soviet psyche-acid animation “Journey To The Stars,” (1981, RUS, Roman Kachanov), the apocalyptic futurism of “No Blade of Grass” (1970, UK, Cornel Wilde) and “Spectreman” (1971, JP, Yasuharu Hasebe) with nuclear superheroes and pollution monsters.
Tickets: 15 zl
Jigoku's Future Shock Film Season
09.10.11 // 00:00 // Kino Pod Baranami
A screening of “Time Masters” (1982, FR, dir. Rene Laloux), a masterwork of pop art surrealist science fiction about a space adventurer who travels to the planet Perdide to save a small boy. The mesmerising ‘Hauntological‘ style score is from Bernard Estardy collaborator Jean Pierre Bourtayre.
Tickets: 6 zl
Screening: "In Search of The Unsound"
09.10.11 // 15:00 // Kino 18
Screening of the documentary "In Search of The Unsound," produced by Playground and directed by Emilio Guerra and G.Sal-Lari. Shot during Unsound 2010, the film explores the meaning of horror in modern music by following music journalist Philip Sherburne between artists and throughout Krakow. Introduced by Mr Sherburne himself.
Tickets: Free
Jigoku's Future Shock Film Season
10.10.11 // 00:00 // Kino Pod Baranami
“The Man Who Saved The World” (1982, TR, dir. Cetin Inanc) is a bewildering, mind melting rip off of “Star Wars” that defies description. Featuring Turkish action star Cuneyt ‘Lionman’ Arkin, it is a zero budget film, shot in a psychedelic haze with a lunatic editor on amphetamines. The score is mash up of electronic sound FX and ripped cues from “Raiders of the Lost Ark” and “Flash Gordon”!
Tickets: 6 zl
Jigoku's Future Shock Film Season
11.10.11 // 00:00 // Kino Pod Baranami
“The Earth Dies Screaming” (1964, UK, dir. Terence Fisher) is a low budget Sci-Fi wonder. Earth is invaded by deadly alien killer robots. The denizens of a public house barricade themselves in, where tensions rise. Meanwhile, the once friendly locals are rising as walking corpses. From legendary Hammer icon Terence Fisher, this is much more than a routine B picture.
Tickets: 6 zl
Jigoku's Future Shock Film Season
13.10.11 // 00:00 // Kino Pod Baranami
“ZPG” (1972, UK, dir. Michael Campus) is set in distant dystopian future, when an overpopulated and polluted Earth is on the verge of collapse. Conception is outlawed, with couples given creepy, state sponsored robot dolls. One man and woman decide to have a real baby of their own, leading to a paranoid game of cat and mouse. A gem of left field futurism.
Tickets: 6 zl
Jigoku's Future Shock Film Season
14.10.11 // 00:00 // Kino Pod Baranami
"The Final Program" (1973, UK, dir. Robert Fuest) is a long forgotten masterpiece, based upon the cult novel by Hawkwing collaborator Michael Moorcock. As the world heads towards meltdown, a man exploring the death of his father is led to the Final Programme, a project to create the ultimate super being. 70's Pop art leftism, with a jazzy electro score from space cadets Beaver and Krause.
Tickets: 6 zl
Screening: "In Search of The Unsound" and "Hip Tech Hi Lit"
14.10.11 // 15:00 // Kino 18
repeat screening of “In Search of The Unsound,” as well as the 1987 cyberpunk video “Hip Tech High Lit” by Stuart Argabright and William Bang, in cooperation with William Gibson and Bruce Sterling.
Tickets: Free
Screening: "In Search of The Unsound" and "Hip Tech Hi Lit"
16.10.11 // 13:00 // Kino 18
Repeat screening of “In Search of The Unsound,” as well as the 1987 cyberpunk video “Hip Tech High Lit” by Stuart Argabright and William Barg, in cooperation with William Gibson and Bruce Sterling.
Tickets: Free
Selected events
12.10 // Klub RE // Kraków
Eastern Bridges 2, presented by Rokolectiv (Romania) and Klub RE (Poland): Sillyconductor The Band of Endless Noise
09.10 // Kino 18 // Krakow
Screening: "In Search of The Unsound"