“Screams on Screen” will project our darkest fantasies and social nightmares onto the big screen.
Image credit: Celia, Ann Turner, 1989 (still). Courtesy of Umbrella Entertainment.
Over two heart stopping nights The Capitol erupts to become the spookiest place in Melbourne for “Screams on Screen”. This curated program at the interface of art/horror features live music, art, feature films, rarely seen experimental shorts, artist and director talks to celebrate the transgressive, rebellious forces that fuel the horror genre.
The program includes a 10-year anniversary screening of one of the most influential Australian horror films of the 21st century, Jennifer Kent’s “The Babadook” (2014), a selection of art/horror auteur David Lynch’s rarely screened earliest experimental shorts (1967-68) as well as new shorts from some of Australia’s finest emerging and established artists, a special digitally restored screening of Ann Turner's Australian folk-horror cult classic "Celia" (1989), and the first Iranian Vampire Western, Ana Lily Amirpour's "A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night" (2014). Audiences will be treated to an exhibition of the monstrous sculptural works of visual artist Isabel Peppard and a live Theremin performance of nightmares from multitalented artist Roman Tucker (Rocket Science).
An immersive and subversive celebration of the monstrous emotions that propel the horror genre, “Screams on Screen” captures horror’s potential to empower social ‘otherness’, from marginalized identities to taboo revolts against constrictive social structures.
Presented by RMIT Culture and SIGN at RMIT in partnership with ACCA and supported by City of Melbourne Annual Arts Grants in association with ACCA's exhibition "From the other side”.
Co-programmed by Jessica Balanzategui (School of Media and Communication, SIGN network lead), Elyse Goldfinch, Jessica Clark (ACCA).
Acknowledgement of Country
RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.
Acknowledgement of Country
RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business.
