Cinema’s Architects of the Uncanny: The Walls are Closing In
With the work of Pablo Bronstein currently housed in, around and through the ICA - haunting every space - we turn to some of cinema’s master builders to observe human characters who are possessed by architecture and living in the mansions of their minds.
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Inferno
22 June 2011 - 25 June 2011
Dario Argento follows up Suspiria with this second chapter in his Three Mothers trilogy. An imposing New York apartment block is home to a coven of witches, a submerged ballroom and a mystery ‘beneath the soles of your shoes’.
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Repulsion
23 June 2011 - 26 June 2011
A west London apartment transforms itself into a charged psychological space in Roman Polanski’s artfully realised Sixties shocker.
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The Phantom of Liberty
23 June 2011 - 30 June 2011
A compendium of absurdity and surrealism, Buñuel’s 1974 film is structured like a house in which every door and passageway leads you to another room that holds its own surprises.
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The Exterminating Angel
24 June 2011 - 30 June 2011
Buñuel’s stinging satire of the upper-classes finds a group of guests invited to a mansion for an elaborate dinner party. Once seated however, they find themselves strangely unable to leave.
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Malpertuis
24 June 2011 - 29 June 2011
A sailor returns from his travels to his family estate of Malpertuis, an ominous mansion distinguished by its series of mysterious spaces and tenants.
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Celine and Julie Go Boating
25 June 2011 - 26 June 2011
Jacques Rivette’s beloved classic, in which two young women imagine themselves into a domestic story playing itself out in a Parisian mansion.
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The Fall of the House of Usher
25 June 2011
Roger Corman’s adaptation of an Edgar Allen Poe story tells the story of a hereditary curse that bleeds into the very walls of the family house.