14th Nov 2014 - 16th Nov 2014
Sallis Benney Theatre
Cult Cinema and Rural Excess
Cine-Excess VIII is an annual international film festival and conference, which attracts global filmmakers, scholars, distributors and film-critics.
This year’s event explores the rural excesses of cult cinema, and is a collaboration between the festival and the University of Brighton’s C21: Centre for research in twenty-first century writings.
To coincide with the 40th anniversary of Tobe Hooper and Kim Henkel’s ground-breaking backwoods classic The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), Cine-Excess VIII considers cult representations of the rural space and its inhabitants, analysing the extent to which depictions of the countryside often reveal fascinating issues of class, sexuality, race and regional distinction.
The event features filmmaker discussions, a themed three-day conference and theatrical premieres/exclusive screenings. Cine-Excess is open to the public, who can book screening delegate passes for individual films, or full delegate passes for the conference, lunches and all Cine-Excess screenings. Book Delegate tickets for all events.
CineExcess VIII features guest of honour Jeff Lieberman (Squirm, Blue Sunshine, Just Before Dawn) in conversation with University of Brighton media researcher and lecturer Xavier Mendik.
Events and Screenings
Friday, 14 November
Venue: Sallis Benney Theatre, Grand Parade, University of Brighton
7.30pm: Lifetime Achievement Award: Jeff Lieberman in conversation with Xavier Mendik, followed by screening of Squirm (1976), introduced by the director.
Alongside visits by Jeff Lieberman and the ‘Scum of the Earth’ screening season, other Cine-Excess VIII highlights include the special panel ‘Cult Crowdfunders’, in which filmmakers and industry figures discuss cult film audiences and indie film funding. The session is chaired by the University of Brighton’s digital economy expert Professor Gillian Youngs.
Event £15: Booking. Student Tickets: £10: Booking
11pm: 40th Anniversary screening of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), including a skype interview with actor Ed Neil
Venue: Late night at Duke’s at Komedia Cinema, Brighton. For individual screenings a this venue, visit the website.
Saturday 15 November
11pm: Blue Sunshine (1978) Introduced by director Jeff Lieberman.
Venue: Late night at Duke’s at Komedia Cinema, Brighton. For individual screenings a this venue, visit the website.
16 November
Back-to-back Film Screenings
ALL FILMS ARE RATED 18 CERTIFICATE.
Sallis Benney Theatre, Grand Parade.
1.00pm: UK premiere of The Wild Man of Navidad (2008), including skype introduction by director Duane Graves.
3.00pm: Poor Pretty Eddy (1975). Starring Shelley Winters and Ted Cassidy.
5.00pm: Just Before Dawn (1981), introduced by director Jeff Lieberman.
8.00pm: Midnight (1982), directed by John A Russo.
Screening £15 Booking. Student tickets £10: Booking.
Tickets for The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) and Blue Sunshine (1978) available only from the Komedia box office. Tel: 0871 902 5728.
Further details of all events and screenings can be found at: www.cine-excess.co.uk
Over the last seven years, the Cine-Excess International Film Conference and Festival has brought together leading scholars and critics with global cult filmmakers. Cine-Excess comprises of a three day conference alongside plenary talks, filmmaker interviews and 5-7 UK theatrical premieres of up and coming cult releases.
Cine-Excess VIII will consider the wide variety of representations of the cult countryside from a range of differing theoretical and methodological perspectives, while also considering larger national notions of the rural space within film, television, literature, comics and digital media.
A selection of conference papers from the event will be published in the Cine-Excess E-Journal in 2015.
