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Filmmaker Gerald Fox delves into the world of dreams in silent cinema, in this inventive and surprising archival reverie.
Kinaesthesia tells the story of the birth of cinema and its experimental early decades through the prism of dreams and the way in which pioneering silent film directors created thrilling dream sequences that mirrored the very way we dream ourselves. We follow this relationship through the eyes of the legendary, late Harvard Film Studies professor, Vlada Petrić, on an imagined odyssey through disparate landscapes, odd encounters and spellbinding film clips.
Exploring scenes from French Impressionism (such as Abel Gance, Jean Renoir), German Expressionism (F.W. Murnau, Fritz Lang), Soviet montage (Sergei Eisenstein, Oleksandr Dovzhenko), the Avant-garde (Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí, Maya Deren) and popular silent comedy (Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton), Petrić illustrates his theory that these early innovators used all the available devices of cinema to produce sequences that activated the sensory-motor centres in the brain producing Kinaesthesia (the sensation of movement) – just as in dreaming itself.
Evocative and often humorous, Kinaesthesia allows audiences to have the same mesmerising cinematic experience that audiences had all those years ago, consumed by the imaginative power of slow-motion, double exposures, expressionistic lighting and dynamic montage.
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Adult: £12.5
Senior: £10
Student: £10
Please note: There are only 5 mins of trailers before our screenings.
Prices
Adult: £12.5
Senior: £10
Student: £10