LSFF: The Gap in the Curtain + Q&A

Hexham Heads, dirs. Chloë Delanghe / Mattijs Driesen, Belgium 2024, 34mins A Place without Fear, dir. Susanne Deeken, UK 2023, 30mins Hart of the Wood: Ways of the Plant, dir. Benjamin Wigley, UK 2024, 30mins The esoteric and extraordinary begin to leak into the domestic sphere in this selection of three haunting shorts. Join us on a ritualistic journey from the desolate moors of 1970s Northumberland to a derelict house in post-Industrial Chicago, and onwards to the myths and masks contained within the Carboniferous fossil collection at Birmingham's Lapworth Museum of Geology. Artist-filmmaker Susanne Deekin deconstructs an abandoned house, which serves as a canvas for a phantasmagorical stop-motion painting over the walls, floors, ceilings, furniture and stairs. Belgian artists Chloë Delanghe and Mattijs Driesen document a series of paranormal events that took place in Hexham, Northumberland in the early '70s upon the unearthing of two mysterious stone heads. Filmmaker Benjamin Wigley delves into the museum’s collections to create hand-crafted photographic prints, etchings, drawings, sculptures and costumes that feed into a single channel, hand-processed 16mm film, a further material layer that infuses myth, mask, and folkloric traditions. The filmmakers will be in conversation after the screening.PT1H34M152025-01-18
Chloë Delanghe / Mattijs Driesen Susanne Deeken Benjamin Wigley,
LSFF: The Gap in the Curtain + Q&A"LSFF: The Gap in the Curtain + Q&A"

Showtimes

January 18, 2:30 pm

Rio Cinema