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october, 2022

29oct(oct 29)12:00 pm30(oct 30)9:00 pmHOUSE OF PSYCHOTIC WOMEN AT WEIRD WEEKEND, GLASGOW

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HOUSE OF PSYCHOTIC WOMEN STRAND AT WEIRD WEEKEND
Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow
Oct 28-30th, 2022
Tickets on sale Friday 23/09 at https://makeitweird.co.uk/house-of-psychotic-women/ 

10 years ago, Kier-La Janisse published House of Psychotic Women, subtitled an “autobiographical topography of female neurosis in horror and exploitation films”. A ground-breaking mix of keen critical analysis and clear-eyed, compelling memoir, Janisse’s influential tome inspired a generation of critics, programmers and film-makers. The book has also played no small role in canonising a range of obscure, fringe and forgotten genre titles, many now considered essential.

To mark the book’s anniversary, we present a selection of films featured in Janisse’s book, all in brand-new restorations, some screening in the UK for the first time. The renowned writer, curator and director also joins us in person for a special In Conversation event, hosted by Anna Bogutskaya (The Final Girls).

Films include:

THE OTHER SIDE OF THE UNDERNEATH
Saturday 29.10.22
| 12.30 | 1hr 51m | 50th Anniversary

Jane Arden’s violent and powerful adaptation of her work with the Holocaust women’s theatre troupe looks into the mind of a woman labelled schizophrenic and finds, not madness, but tortured sexual guilt created by the taboos of society.

“Funerals masquerade as weddings; women masturbate and vomit in churches; they murder each other with rubber weapons; they are revered as saints while being buried alive and crucified.” Kier-La Janisee, House of Psychotic Women.

C/w Attempted suicide, Blood, Dead animals

I LIKE BATS
Saturday 29.10.22
| 14.30 | 1hr 19m | 2K preservation

Katarzyna Walter stars as a happily single young vampire who works in her aunt’s curio shop when not feeding on various suitors and sleazebags. But when she falls for a handsome psychiatrist, she’ll discover that no affliction is more horrific than love.

“With incredible neo-noir lighting and architecture ranging from Eastern Bloc chunkiness to the melodramatic spires of the sanitarium, antique trinkets, a masked ball, colourful secondary characters, and even an orange dune buggy(!), I Like Bats is a fun, kooky movie that manages to soak up its Gothic influences while never losing sight of the absurdist humour at its core.” Kier-La Janisse, House of Psychotic Women

TROMPE L’OEIL
Saturday 29.10.22
| 18.00 | 1hr 45m | New restoration

In a sumptuous house, Anne, a fragile young woman who is pregnant for the first time, feels an indefinable anguish slowly taking hold. Immersed for long hours in the restoration of old paintings, Anne thinks tirelessly of the brief attack of amnesia at the end of which she was found, a few months earlier, holding tight against her an unknown painting. She receives threatening anonymous letters, snatches of the past emerge now and then: did she steal the painting from a gallery? And does this menacing unknown man, watching her from an abandoned house, want to recover it?

“If Trompe l’oeil warns against anything it’s surface readings, which can fatally distract from the magic underneath.” Kier-La Janisse, House of Psychotic Women

Thanks to BFI, Belfilm, Pete Tombs, Meli Gueneau & Kier-La Janisse

KIER-LA JANISSE IN CONVERSATION
Saturday 29.10.22
| 20:00 | 1hr 30m | Hosted by Anna Bogutskaya

Following our special online conversation in 2020, the renowned writer, curator and director joins us in person for a special In Conversation event, this time hosted by Anna Bogutskaya (The Final Girls). 10 years ago, Kier-La Janisse published House of Psychotic Women, subtitled an “autobiographical topography of female neurosis in horror and exploitation films”. A ground-breaking mix of keen critical analysis and clear-eyed, thoroughly compelling memoir, Janisse’s influential tome inspired a generation of critics, programmers and film-makers. The book has also played no small role in canonising a range of obscure, fringe and forgotten genre titles, many now considered essential.

IDENTIKIT aka THE DRIVER’S SEAT
Sunday 30.10.22
| 19.30 | 1hr 45 | New restoration

Middle-aged Lise (Elizabeth Taylor) leaves Germany for a holiday in Rome. On the edge of a nervous break-down, she travels in a psychedelic dress and carrying a book. Ignored by Pierre (Maxence Mailfort), who she is interested in, but pursued by the American Bill (Ian Bannen), she reaches the capital. After a series of incredible and unnerving adventures, she finally meets someone just as unhinged as she is; this is to be her end, leaving behind a mystery for the police to solve.

“Based on the 1970 book by Muriel Spark, the story is told in a non-linear fashion…with Lise seemingly being pursued by Interpol, prompting local police to chase up anyone she has interacted with (among them a British Lord played by Andy Warhol in a surprising cameo). One wonders what crime she has committed. The disorienting edit has the effect of deconstructing rather than reconstructing her final days.” Kier-La Janisse, House of Psychotic Women

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Time

29 (Saturday) 12:00 pm - 30 (Sunday) 9:00 pm

Location

Centre for Contemporary Arts

350 Sauchiehall St, Glasgow

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