Doors at 6:30pm, screening at 7pm 

Join us for the first of two nights of cinematic horror with a screening of Vampir-Cuadecuc by Pere Portabella, preceded by Peter Tscherkassky’s Outer Space, and Takeshi Murata’s Untitled (Silver).

VAMPIR-CUADECUC (1971, 65 min) is Spanish filmmaker Pere Portabella’s version of Dracula, filmed entirely on the set of Jess Franco’s 1970 film Count Dracula, featuring performances by Christopher Lee, Soledad Miranda and Herbert Lom.

In UNTITLED (SILVER) (2006, 11 min), Takeshi Murata subjects a snippet of footage from a vintage horror film (Mario Bava's 1960 Mask of Satan) to his exacting yet almost violent digital manipulations. The seething black and white imagery constantly decomposes and reconstitutes itself, slipping seductively between abstraction and recognition.

OUTER SPACE (1999, 10 min) - Reworking footage from Sidney J. Furie’s 1982 supernatural horror film The Entity, Tscherkassky creates a phantasmagoric work where “both the physical space and the surface of the projection begin to splinter, collapse and rupture.” (Rhys Graham, Senses of Cinema).                                 

Projected from a 16mm print, courtesy of Canyon Cinema.
This event is proudly supported by the City of Seattle’s Department of Neighborhoods.