Remember the light and believe

the light. An instant of clarity

before eternal night

– 4.48 Psychosis written by Sarah Kane.

Van / met
Fatou Kâ & Aniesha Akoua N. Tchimou

Met dank aan
KASK Drama, Simon De Winne, Bauke Lievens, Mateo Degroof, Bardia Mohammad, Mario Barrantes Espinoza, Sarah Kane, Jan steen.

Weird Wednesday packs her suitcase for an unparalleled campy crime caper. Forget James Bond and open your heart to Diabolik: a master thief who conquers the underworld in tight latex. Accompanied by his girlfriend Eva Kant and armed with an arsenal of high-tech gadgets, this suave super-criminal plans a series of stunning heists that leave many a law enforcement officer eating their hat. When his eye falls on a substantial hoard of gold, however, our anti-hero faces a challenge that pushes his cunning to the limit.

It comes as no surprise that Danger: Diabolik sprang from the mind of giallo master Mario Bava. Based on Italian comic books and silent-era villains such as Fantomas and Irma Vep, the film is Bava’s ode to the poetry of pulp. Danger: Diabolik strings together a series of stylistic sensations that will make your eyes pop with visual fireworks. Like a pop art explosion, the film blazes with psychedelic visuals and absurdist daring, all set to a roaring pop soundtrack by Ennio Morricone. A devilish treat to round off the season.

This screening is preceded by the short film CHLORINE by Zayd Hamzane.

In the Montréal metro, Raoul and Béatrice’s eyes meet, and suddenly the city seems to shift ever so slightly. He is a rock star activist with grand plans; she is a nocturnal flâneuse who hands out books to the homeless. Every Thursday evening, Béatrice meets up with her friends Constance and Eugène to dream aloud of a poetic uprising. Constance broadcasts politically charged sound art via an independent radio station, and Eugène has been writing a novel for years that never seems to be finished. When Raoul appears in their world, their small circle suddenly begins to resonate with grander revolutionary fantasies.

This hypnotic, fragmentary ode to resistance hovers between essay, fiction and daydream, imbued with the spirit of Godard and Debord. Film, video, archive footage and glitching phone screens intertwine. Playing with the boundaries between fiction and autobiography, between activism and performance, the characters and the city itself slowly begin to awaken from their apathy, ready for a revolution that might spring from books, sound waves and a handful of friends in a dark room.

This screening will be introduced by filmmaker Émilien Dubuc and preceded by the 16mm short film La Plage (1991).