UNSOUND FESTIVAL in Kino Pod Baranami
October 8-14 2011

MIDNIGHT FUTURE SHOCK FILM SESSIONS

For Unsound 2010 and our HORROR theme, UK audio/visual duo Jigoku put together a program of bloodthirsty gems screened from VHS at midnight. They included the weird, the forgotten and the legendary. The program was a resounding success.
Now Jigoku are back, to create a film series for Unsound 2011, centered on obscure and mind-bending Sci-Fi cinema.
Screenings take place at midnight each day in Kino Pod Baranami on Krakow's Main Square. They include an old-fashioned midnight to dawn movie marathon to kick off the series.

All screenings in original language versions.

ABOUT UNSOUND FESTIVAL:

Unsound was established in 2003 in Krakow, Poland, as a festival of advanced music. Starting out as an underground event, in recent years the festival has grown in size and name.
Unsound currently produces an annual festival in Krakow at the end of October each year, and in the Spring 2011 will produce the second Unsound Festival New York, with local producers, curators, venues and cultural institutes in that city.
Unsound is interested in the idea of cross-border collaboration, and thinking of the festival as a tool for commissioning and fostering new work. As well as this, Unsound is focused on promoting music from Poland and generally the region East of Berlin.

TICKETS: 6 PLN
Opening marathon (3 films): 15 PLN


PROGRAMME:

Saturday, October 8
00.00  JIGOKU'S FUTURE SHOCK FILM SEASON 1 - opening marathon
Jigoku’s film series starts with an all-night marathon featuring the documentary Future Shock”(1972, US, dir. Alexander Grasshoff), Soviet psyche-acid animation Journey To The Stars, (1981, RUS, Roman Kachanov), the apocalyptic futurism of No Blade of Grass (1970, UK, Cornel Wilde) and Spectreman (1971, JP, Yasuharu Hasebe) with nuclear superheroes and pollution monsters.

FUTURE SHOCK
dir. Alexander Grasshoff, USA 1972, 43’

JOURNEY TO THE STARS | TAYNA TRETYEY PLANETY
dir. Roman Kachanov, RU 1981, 48’

NO BLADE OF GRASS
dir. Cornel Wilde, UK 1970, 89’

SPECTREMAN | UCHÛ ENIJIN GORI
dir. Yasuharu Hasebe, JP 1971, 68’


Sunday, October 9
00.00  JIGOKU'S FUTURE SHOCK FILM SEASON 2
TIME MASTERS | LES MAÎTRES DU TEMPS
dir. Rene Laloux, FR 1982, 78’
A screening of Time Masters (1982, FR, dir. Rene Laloux), a masterwork of pop art surrealist science fiction about a space adventurer who travels to the planet Perdide to save a small boy. The mesmerising ‘Hauntological‘ style score is from Bernard Estardy collaborator Jean Pierre Bourtayre.

Monday, October 10
00.00  JIGOKU'S FUTURE SHOCK FILM SEASON 3
THE MAN WHO SAVES THE WORLD | DÜNYAYI KURTARAN ADAM
dir. Çetin Inanç, TR 1982, 91’
The Man Who Saved The World (1982, TR, dir. Cetin Inanc) is a bewildering, mind melting rip off of Star Wars that defies description. Featuring Turkish action star Cuneyt ‘Lionman’ Arkin, it is a zero budget film, shot in a psychedelic haze with a lunatic editor on amphetamines. The score is mash up of electronic sound FX and ripped cues from Raiders of the Lost Ark and Flash Gordon!

Tuesday, October 11
00.00  JIGOKU'S FUTURE SHOCK FILM SEASON 4
THE EARTH DIES SCREAMING | THE EARTH DIES SCREAMING
dir. Terence Fisher, UK 1964, 62’
The Earth Dies Screaming (1964, UK, dir. Terence Fisher) is a low budget Sci-Fi wonder. Earth is invaded by deadly alien killer robots. The denizens of a public house barricade themselves in, where tensions rise. Meanwhile, the once friendly locals are rising as walking corpses. From legendary Hammer icon Terence Fisher, this is much more than a routine B picture.

Wednesday, October 12
00.00 JIGOKU'S FUTURE SHOCK FILM SEASON 5
ATLANTIS INTERCEPTORS | I PREDATORI DI ATLANTIDE
dir. Ruggero Deodato, IT 1983, 89’
In Atlantis Interceptors (1983, IT, dir. Ruggero Deodato) scientists unearth the lost city of Atlantis and unleash a giant killer causing chaos and destruction. A messed up meshing of Mad Max, Jules Verne, ultra violence and post nuke Sci-Fi action, with pulsating electro funk score by Guido and Maurizio De Angelis.

Thursday, October 13
00.00  JIGOKU'S FUTURE SHOCK FILM SEASON 6
Z.P.G. (ZERO POPULATION GROWTH)
dir. Michael Campus, UK 1972, 97’
ZPG (1972, UK, dir. Michael Campus) is set in distant dystopian future, when an overpopulated and polluted Earth is on the verge of collapse. Conception is outlawed, with couples given creepy, state sponsored robot dolls. One man and woman decide to have a real baby of their own, leading to a paranoid game of cat and mouse. A gem of left field futurism.

Friday, October 14
00.00  JIGOKU'S FUTURE SHOCK FILM SEASON 7
THE FINAL PROGRAMME
dir. Robert Fuest, UK 1973, 89’
The Final Program (1973, UK, dir. Robert Fuest) is a long forgotten masterpiece, based upon the cult novel by Hawkwing collaborator Michael Moorcock. As the world heads towards meltdown, a man exploring the death of his father is led to the Final Programme, a project to create the ultimate super being. 70's Pop art leftism, with a jazzy electro score from space cadets Beaver and Krause.

Films in English or with English subtitles.



Official Festival's site: www.unsound.pl