Genetic Screenings

9/4/03 to 10/31/03

  • Teknolust, October 16

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Past Films

  • ISLAND OF LOST SOULS

    Thursday, September 4 7:30
    Introduced by Dale Hoyt. Charles Laughton is magnificently degenerate as H.G. Wells's Dr. Moreau in this essential 1932 horror film, evolutionary experimentation with an erotic subtext. In its compassion for the freaks of scientific progress, "the film's subversive spirit surfaces with a real vengeance."-Time Out. With Hoyt's Transgenic Hairshirt.
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  • THE SECRET ADVENTURES OF TOM THUMB

    Thursday, September 11 7:30
    Combining pixillated humans with models, Dave Borthwick, famous for Creature Comforts, has created a quirky fantasy "where Eraserhead and Pinocchio meet."-The Guardian, U.K. With animated shorts Hello, Dolly!, The Donor Party, and Metronome Heart.
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  • HOMO SAPIENS 1900

    Thursday, September 25 7:30
    In a beautifully conceived documentary, Peter Cohen (The Architecture of Doom) presents a disquieting history of the eugenics movement-"the dream of a measurable man" masking a nightmare. With short Eight Men Called Eugene.
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  • UNDEREXPOSED: THE TEMPLE OF THE FETUS

    Thursday, October 2 7:30
    Kathy High's audacious hybrid fiction looks at the emerging "fetal environment" and the effects of its incubating ideology on women. With shorts Replication, Hatching Beauty, and Stories from the Genome.
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  • THE SNOWFLAKE CRUSADE

    Thursday, October 9 7:30
    It's not easy being a chip off the old double helix in Megan Holley's comitragedy of cloning. "Wonderfully literate, funny, and tender."-Tod Booth, S.F. Indiefest. With shorts Man's Search for Happiness and Stop Cloning Around.
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  • TEKNOLUST

    Thursday, October 16 7:30
    Lynn Hershman Leeson in Person. Biogenetic engineers have feelings, too. This one does something about it. Tilda Swinton is cloned in this franken-farce, "the hippest 'cyber-fi' movie ever."-B. Ruby Rich. With short Copy Shop.
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  • HYBRID

    Thursday, October 23 7:30
    Grand Prize winner at the 2001 Slamdance festival, Hybrid documents one man's obsession with crossbred corn in a wry, enchanting reflection on human nature. A "tricky and tremendous film."-N.Y. Times. With short Bug Girl.
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  • DEMON SEED

    Thursday, October 30 7:30
    Greg Niemeyer in Person. Donald Cammell's exercise in techno-trauma features a supercomputer determined to use Julie Christie as the vessel for its brainchild. With world premiere of Niemeyer's short Organum.
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  • THE FLY

    Friday, October 31 7:30
    The classic 1958 tale of scientific hubris and transgenic terror, complete with insectoid prosthetics, fly's-eye optical effects, and Vincent Price at high pitch. Help me! Help meeee!
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  • GATTACA

    Wednesday, July 22
    Ethan Hawke, Jude Law, and Uma Thurman inhabit a future not racist or sexist, but genomist. "An Orwellian story presented with a cool, eerie precision like Peter Greenaway's...a handsome and fully imagined work of cautionary futuristic fiction."-N.Y. Times. With short One Breath.
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