IKLECTIK presents,
James Fotopoulos: Christabel, Esophagus, The Ant Hill
Film Screening
Monday 10 October 2022 | Doors: 5:30pm | First Screening: 6pm
Our Kiosk will be open from 4pm
Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Baa2bda38a04
1 Film £6
2 Films £10
3 Films £15
Christabel (2001) is an abstract interpretation of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s unfinished Gothic poem about female possession. Adhering to the poem’s structure the film is presented in four parts – two digital video half hour segments and then two short 16mm conclusions. The contemporary relevance of the poem’s symbols and themes is underlined using performance combined with heavy image and sound layering.
In Esophagus (2004) the origins of the universe told through the lens of an experimental film and video sci-fi horror-show fusion: Alien women trapped in a colorfully hand-scratched film-textured hotel room, genetically mutated men slowly driven mad in a white digital prison, the high contrast landscapes of Mars, and a futuristic tribe of a giant, an elf and a witch in their decaying suicide-home.
In The Ant Hill (2004) a cult leader’s vision of the end of the world is not fulfilled he begins the systematic humiliation and destruction of his followers. The derelict play unfolds on a barren stage with bursts of animation, field recordings, alien creatures and variety store costumes – a high school production aesthetic of the most extreme nature.
