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“It is important that your investigation ends with the question, rather than the answer.”
Mopping up the carnage left by last month’s SPECTOBER, Spectacle is following up its COLLAGE HORREUR series with COLLAGE NOIR, a selection of brooding, introspective, and nihilistic experimental capers and detective films befitting our annual NOIR-VEMBER marathon and in no short supply of trench coats, cigarette smoke, window shades, urban decay, thievery, betrayal, infidelity, fatalistic monologues, and murder.
Following up on last month’s screening and discussion of THE PHILOSOPHY OF HORROR, Hungarian filmmaker Péter Lichter returns with the North American premiere of THE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT STYLES, an Agatha Christie adaptation exploding with a phantasmic suturing of early cinema and desktop documentary. Screening with Lichter’s feature is the crime novel and noir film fantasia EXTERIOR NIGHT by Mark Rappaport, who was the subject of a Spectacle retro in 2018.
Croatian animator Dalibor Baríc, whose collage horror shorts graced the theater in October, also returns with ACCIDENTAL LUXURIANCE OF THE TRANSLUCENT WATERY REBUS. Baríc’s first feature is a psycho-spelunking paranoic ego-fuck that fuses noir and sci-fi into an experience that can be described in short hand as ALPHAVILLE on DMT.
We are also delighted to be hosting the work of collage film pioneer Lewis Klahr with his 1963-set crime feature THE PETTIFOGGER, preceded by two shorts: the black and white ENGRAM SEPALS projected on 16mm and the world premiere of THIN RAIN.