A film and intermittent video art screening that transcends into a purgatorial nightclub.

Simon and the Radioactive Flesh uses Louis Bunuel's 45 minute film of an ascetic, Simon, a devotee of Simon Stylites, who proclaims his faith through standing on a column in the desert. The devil visits on several occasions to lure him from his duty, eventually succeeding in transposing him to purgatory; an existential beat nightclub in 1960's New York.

In this reworking of the original film, each time the devil appears the narrative is interrupted by the insertion of a contemporary video art work. The interruptions continue throughout the film until finally we too are spatially interrupted, finding ourselves in a parallel to the purgatorial nightclub setting of the film's last dance, Carne Radioactivo (The Radioactive Flesh).

Sunday, 14th October 2007


8pm

Arcola Theatre, 27 Arcola Street, London E8.

£5, (tickets from Arcola box office 020 7503 1646)

www.arcolatheatre.com

www.lux.org.uk

 

 

with the support of:

             
 

 

 

 

 

wayward 20 ___ Simon and the Radioactive Flesh - Dalston

with Giles Round

 

Arcola Theatre, Dalston, London, UK

14th Oct 2007, 8pm