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Night Fever (12A*) + ScreenTalk

Two men bathe in a night pool.

An evening of experimental film, marking the publication of the new book Night Fever: Film and Photography After Dark (Walther Koenig, 2024).  

The programme comprises five short films, each speaks directly to the major themes of the book, finding in the night the opportunity to rejoice and rebel, but also to seek rest, refuge and perhaps some revelation.  

The films include Lunar Almanac (2013), by Chilean filmmaker Malena Szlam, recording the lunar cycle in single-frame and long-exposure photography; Jeanne Liotta's What Makes Day and Night (1998), a 1940s educational film matched to a score by Nino Rota; and No No Sleep (Tsai Ming-liang, 2015), which explores exhaustion and erotic desire in night-time Tokyo.  

The film programme will be introduced by the book's editor and Barbican Head of Visual Arts, Shanay Jhaveri, and followed by a discussion with film writers and academics who contributed essays to the book.

Speakers 

Erika Balsom

Charlotte Jansen

Elena Gorfinkel

Lou Stoppard

Tagged with: Cinema ScreenTalks

Film running-time: 73 min approx. 

Total event running-time: 1h45 min approx.

Please note, some films contain passages with flashing lights/strobe effects that may affect people with photosensitivity. 

Film programme

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