Tickets $10/$8 Students, Seniors, Brattle Members | No Brattle Passes
We return again to late night at the Brattle with our dark queer shorts! We have Outliving Dracula with Blaue Stunde. Two creepy and dark films to start off our second weekend just right!
Outliving Dracula explores the radical influence of the classic (and first) lesbian vampire story, JS Le Fanu’s Carmilla, on generations of filmmakers – from Carl Dreyer’s extraordinary Vampyr to Roger Vadim’s Blood and Roses, from the Gothic kitsch of Hammer through to films produced for an art gallery context. Featuring interviews with leading film scholars and lesbian artists influenced by Le Fanu, Outliving Dracula seeks to redefine Le Fanu’s critical importance as an Irish writer whose ghostly traces remain profound and enigmatic.
And Blaue Stunde brings you a story with an ending that needs to be seen to be believed.Through a life-changing accident, Jona, a full-time nurse, has to learn how to live as an invalid. Without having any alternatives, Jona has to bear with Luca, her new nurse. As time goes by she begins to trust Luca more and more. Over the time a love relationship originates between the two of them. But this relationship finds a sudden end when Jona finds out that Luca isn’t who she claims to be.
Outliving Dracula: Le Fanu’s Carmilla
Directed by Fergus Daly and Katherine Waugh, 60 min, Ireland, 2011, English
OUTLIVING DRACULA explores the radical influence of the classic (and first) lesbian vampire story, JS Le Fanu’s Carmilla, on generations of filmmakers – from Carl Dreyer’s extraordinary Vampyr to Roger Vadim’s Blood and Roses, from the Gothic kitsch of Hammer through to films produced for an art gallery context. Featuring interviews with leading film scholars and lesbian artists influenced by Le Fanu, OUTLIVING DRACULA seeks to redefine Le Fanu’s critical importance as an Irish writer whose ghostly traces remain profound and enigmatic. This documentary suggests that Carmilla may perhaps be more radical and transgressive today as a creative wellspring than its successor Dracula.
With:
Blaue Stunde
Directed by Stella Tümmler, Germany, 37 min, 2011. In German with English subtitles.
Through a life-changing accident, Jona, a full-time nurse, has to learn how to live as an invalid. Without having any alternatives, Jona has to bear with Luca, her new nurse. As time goes by she begins to trust Luca more and more. Over the time a love relationship originates between the two of them. But this relationship finds a sudden end when Jona finds out that Luca isn’t who she claims to be.
Outliving Dracula: Le Fanu’s Carmilla and Dark Queer Shorts
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Tickets $10/$8 Students, Seniors, Brattle Members | No Brattle Passes
We return again to late night at the Brattle with our dark queer shorts! We have Outliving Dracula with Blaue Stunde. Two creepy and dark films to start off our second weekend just right!
Outliving Dracula explores the radical influence of the classic (and first) lesbian vampire story, JS Le Fanu’s Carmilla, on generations of filmmakers – from Carl Dreyer’s extraordinary Vampyr to Roger Vadim’s Blood and Roses, from the Gothic kitsch of Hammer through to films produced for an art gallery context. Featuring interviews with leading film scholars and lesbian artists influenced by Le Fanu, Outliving Dracula seeks to redefine Le Fanu’s critical importance as an Irish writer whose ghostly traces remain profound and enigmatic.
And Blaue Stunde brings you a story with an ending that needs to be seen to be believed.Through a life-changing accident, Jona, a full-time nurse, has to learn how to live as an invalid. Without having any alternatives, Jona has to bear with Luca, her new nurse. As time goes by she begins to trust Luca more and more. Over the time a love relationship originates between the two of them. But this relationship finds a sudden end when Jona finds out that Luca isn’t who she claims to be.
Outliving Dracula: Le Fanu’s Carmilla
Directed by Fergus Daly and Katherine Waugh, 60 min, Ireland, 2011, English
OUTLIVING DRACULA explores the radical influence of the classic (and first) lesbian vampire story, JS Le Fanu’s Carmilla, on generations of filmmakers – from Carl Dreyer’s extraordinary Vampyr to Roger Vadim’s Blood and Roses, from the Gothic kitsch of Hammer through to films produced for an art gallery context. Featuring interviews with leading film scholars and lesbian artists influenced by Le Fanu, OUTLIVING DRACULA seeks to redefine Le Fanu’s critical importance as an Irish writer whose ghostly traces remain profound and enigmatic. This documentary suggests that Carmilla may perhaps be more radical and transgressive today as a creative wellspring than its successor Dracula.
With:
Blaue Stunde
Directed by Stella Tümmler, Germany, 37 min, 2011. In German with English subtitles.
Through a life-changing accident, Jona, a full-time nurse, has to learn how to live as an invalid. Without having any alternatives, Jona has to bear with Luca, her new nurse. As time goes by she begins to trust Luca more and more. Over the time a love relationship originates between the two of them. But this relationship finds a sudden end when Jona finds out that Luca isn’t who she claims to be.