Tuesday 15th October | 7pm | £6.30 advance tickets
Electric Blue presents: In My Skin (2002), written, directed by and starring French filmmaker Marina De Van. This independent body horror, or 'cine du corpse' acts as a precursor to the New French Extremity movement of the early 21st Century, hallmarked by avant-garde directors such as Claire Denis, Catherine Breillat, Lars von Trier and Julia Ducorneau. De Van's film perfectly sets the tone for this movement around cinematic bodily violence, sexual transgression and the brutality of gender, with her intimate narrartive of mutilation and self-cannibalism. De Van presents a film about tactility- exploring the relationship to the materiality of our own corpus and by extension, the auto-cannabilsim of cinema itself.
In My Skin will be preceded by a selection of blood-curdling body horror shorts, curated especially by Electric Blue in conversation with De Van's voyeur-defying feature, with a brief introduction by our resident programmers.
About Electric Blue
Electric Blue is an experimental screening space in Brighton dedicated to presenting avant-garde cinema and unusual relics - from artist-film short programmes to unlikely features. We are invested in platforming marginalised perspectives, archive cinema, and in creating an accessible space for heightened creative conversation and visual collaboration. Bringing our programme this Autumn to The Rose Hill, we will be curating a series of voyeur-defying and experimental cinema by contemporary pioneering female directors. Each of our feature screenings will be complimented by a series of short innovatory works that reflect the thematics of our central film, and visually inspire our audiences to consider an imagination that lies outside of the limitations of traditional cinema.
Electric Blue derives from a coming-together of various film curators, film fanatics, writers, directors and artists who seek to mobilise alternative film culture in Brighton and platform young artists, creative interaction and development, through the lens of the screen.