those obscure objects of desire:
the films of walerian borowczyk.

THE LUX CENTRE
2-4 Hoxton Square
London
N1
England

http://www.lux.org.uk
020 7684 0200

WALERIAN BOROWCZYK RETROSPECTIVE 12-14 July

This programme offers a rare chance to re-assess the work of a unique filmmaker. Borowczyk's animated short films are a dazzling amalgam of formal precision and absurdist wit, whilst his features are a procession of bizarre, cautionary moral tales that are distinguished as much for their form as for their sexual explicitness.

Thursday 12 July 7.00

Short films that conjure up concentrated nightmares, moments of solitude and pathos, many of which have never been screened in the UK.

ONCE UPON A TIME (1957) + REQUITED SENTIMENTS (1957) + THE CONCERT OF MR AND MRS KABAL (1962) + GRANDMA'S ENCYCLOPEDIA (1963) + ANGELS' GAMES (1964) + JOACHIM'S DICTIONARY* (1965) + VENUS'S SNAIL (1975) + MONSTER LOVE (1979) + HYPER EROTIC ART: HAYASHI* (1980) + SCHERZO INFERNAL (1986)

9.00

DOM (1958) + THE SCHOOL + (1959) + THE ASTRONAUT (1959) + RENAISSANCE (1962) + ROSALIE (1966) + DIPTYQUE (1967) + GAVOTTE (1967) LE PHONOGRAPH (1969) + A PARTICULAR COLLECTION (1972)

Friday 13 July 7.00

THE THEATRE OF MR AND MRS KABAL (1967)

Recalling both Beckett and Dubuffet, the antics of the parasitic Kabals are extended to feature length in this animated tour de force. + LETTER FROM PARIS* (1975)

9.00

GOTO, ISLAND OF LOVE (1968)

Borowczyk turns Kafka inside out, consistently revising the unfamiliar in a meticulously composed tale of unrequited love. + ANGELS' GAMES (1964)

Saturday 14 July 7.00

BLANCHE (1971) Tragedy befalls a mediaeval castle as an Ophelia-like beauty falls prey to the lust of the men around her. + GAVOTTE (1967)

9.00

STORY OF SIN (1975)

A girl's love is repressed and exploited to the rapturous strains of Mendelssohn in a delirious belle Žpoque melodrama. Introduced by Walerian Borowczyk*

Sunday 15 July time 1.30

IMMORAL TALES (1973)

Erzebet Bathory and Lucrezia Borgia feature in an erotic portmanteau film built around one of La Rochefoucauld's maxims. + A PARTICULAR COLLECTION (1972)

4.00

THE BEAST (1975)

Erotic dreams interrupt the plans of a venal aristocrat to save his crumbling chateau by marrying off his cursed son to a wealthy American heiress. + VENUS'S SNAIL (1975)

6.30

THE STRANGE CASE OF DR JEKYLL AND MISS OSBOURNE (1981)

Alternately farcical and horrific, with surrealist imagery set to musique concrte. + L'ARMOIRE* (1979)

9.00

LOVE RITES (1988) Borowczyk's final film is an austere affair that gradually builds up to an apocalyptic climax. + THE GOLDEN LOTUS* (1993)

* to be confirmed.

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