Cine-Excess XI 9th- 11th November 2017 Guest of Honour: Fear and the Unfamiliar: Sergio Martino (All the Colours of the Dark, Wrong Time, Wrong Place, Torso, The Violent Professionals) Wrong Crowd Keynote Speaker: Professor Mark Jancovich (UEA)

1 Dear Delegates, Colleagues and Friends It is with great pleasure and pride that we welcome you to the 11th Cine-Excess International Film Festival

Cine-Excess XI (www.cine-excess.co.uk) is this in London, and featured a three day conference year hosted by Birmingham City University, theme that explored global constructions of cult the Birmingham and Midland Institute and adaptation. Additionally, the event hosted the the Mockingbird Cinema in order to stage an iconic European directors Enzo G. Castellari (The international film conference and festival that Inglorious Bast***s, Keoma) and Sergio Martino considers cult cinema cultures from around the (Torso, The Violent Professionals) as Guests of world. Honour, as well as a special ‘Script to Scream’ panel discussion on new horror talent that was Having now reached its 11th year of operation, supported by Time Out magazine. Xavier Mendik it is worth briefly reflecting on the evolution of the event. Cine-Excess was conceived as 2013 saw us collaborating with the B-Film: a unique industry-into-academia forum that The Birmingham Centre for Film Studies for began in May 2007, with an event featuring the production of Cine-Excess VII: European a three day conference and guest visits by Erotic Excess: Identity Desire and Disgust. We international filmmakers includingJohn Landis were honoured to host visits by Catherine (An American Werewolf in London). Cine-Excess Breillat (Romance, Anatomy of Hell, Abuse of II (May 2008) was an even bigger occasion, with Weakness) and Francesco Barilli (Perfume of receiving the firstCine-Excess the Lady in Black, Pensiona paura), both of Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his whom have created iconic and yet challenging outstanding career as a leading cult director and and controversial representations of European Fran Pheasant-Kelly producer. eroticism that were dealt with by the wider conference component of the 2013 event. Cine-Excess III (May 2009) saw proceedings move Alongside a special themed ‘Dark Romance’ season to the Odeon Covent Garden, with Italian horror exploring the obsessive extremes of desire, Cine- legend and Goblin composer Excess VII facilitated the special industry panel Claudio Simonetti attending to receive Cine- ‘Echoes of Excess: Creation, Financing Excess Lifetime Achievement Awards for their and the Digital Economy’, which considered how work. The 2009 event was also significant for new technology is changing the creation of cult launching the Nouveaux Pictures-Cine-Excess content. DVD label, which has released a number of titles including the first UK Blu-ray release of Cine-Excess VIII was the first of two years that Robert Sharl Argento’s (1977). Cine-Excess IV (May saw the event taking place at the University of 2010) hosted a visit by horror icon Joe Dante, Brighton’s Sallis Benney theatre. The theme of who here premiered the UK cut of his lost 1968 Cine-Excess VIII in 2014 was ‘Are You ready for cult collage epic The Movie Orgy. Cine-Excess IV the Country: Cult Cinema and Rural Excess’, which further continued its commitment to showcasing contemplated cult cinema’s continued fascination leading critical thinkers in the field, withProfessor with the countryside and its inhabitants. We Richard Dyer delivering a keynote address on were honoured to host a visit by cult American European serial killers, which complemented the film directorJeff Lieberman (Squirm, Blue 2010 themed conference of ‘Corporeal Excess: Sunshine, Just Before Dawn), whose iconic titles Cult Bodies.’ have frequently explored longstanding fears of rural degeneracy. Cine-Excess VIII also tackled Cine-Excess V (May 2011) hosted visits by Italian the issue of contemporary cult film funding and acting legend Franco Nero (Django, Keoma, Die audience design with the special industry panel Hard 2) and controversial cult director Ruggero ‘Cult Crowdfunders’ that paired film directors Deodato (Cannibal Holocaust, House on the Edge with contemporary audience designers and of the Park), both of whose presence perfectly crowdfunding platform creators. In conjunction suited the 2011 theme of ‘Subverting the Senses: with these exciting debates, the two day The Politics and Aesthetics of Excess.’ As well conference Are You Ready for the Country: Cult as headlining the world theatrical premiere Cinema and Rural Excess ran across the daytime of Deodato’s new director’s cut of Cannibal slots of the entire festival, and featured a range of Holocaust, the event also presented a historic fascinating panels from international scholars in panel discussion between the director, academics the field. and BBFC examiners. Cine-Excess VI was held in conjunction with the Italian Cultural Institute 2 The second Brighton based event was Cine- Edge’ profiles a current project by a Birmingham Excess IX in 2015. Here, the theme of ‘Historical housing group, who are creating a zombie film Trauma, Hysterical Texts: Cult Film in Times of short in conjunction with Birmingham City Crisis’ considered how the cult image acts as an University staff and students in order to document uncomfortable mirror of wider social concerns. residents perceptions of urban regeneration and Courtesy of Brighton City Council, Cine Excess its impact on community relations. was able to offer a rare uncut public screening of the controversial Canadian home invasion Highlights of this year’s screening season include movie Death Weekend, while its veteran director UK premiere Beset by Demons, which is scheduled William Fruet (Death Weekend [1976], Wedding for Friday 10th November (7pm-8pm) with Skype in White [1972] and Search and Destroy [1979]) Q and A from co-creators Kim Henkel and Brian accepted his Cine-Excess Lifetime Achievement Huberman. The film details the life and brutal Award in Toronto before addressing delegates via murder of The Texas Chain Saw Masacre II cult conference call to discuss how his films reflected actor Lou Perryman and is a must see real life wider social tensions. Fruet’s participation was exposé for chainsaw and true crime fans alike. complemented by the attendance of iconic comic Other films programmed for Friday evening book creator Pat Mills (Action Magazine, 2000AD include Aaron B Koontz’s debut filmCamera and Slaine) at Cine-Excess IX. Pat participated in Obscura, which centres on a returning Iraq war the special panel debate ‘Poor, Angry White Kids’, photographer suffering from post-traumatic in which he discussed the social significance of his stress disorder, who finds himself plagued by controversial comic book creation Action before images of impending death in the images he receiving a Cine-Excess Lifetime Achievement shoots. Screenings scheduled for Saturday noon Award from Professor Martin Barker and former include Incarnation, directed by Filip Kovacevic. 2000AD artist Jim McCarthy. Here, the need to find answers to a perplexing life is a central theme to this Serbian time loop For its 10th anniversary, Cult , Traditions about an amnesiac man who tries to Eugenio Triana and Bodies: A Decade of Excess, Cine-Excess recover his identity and find out who’s trying moved to Birmingham. Here, international to kill him. Following the Conference Dinner, critics and scholars assessed a range of classic Cine-Excess XI rounds off at the Mockingbird and contemporary cult film case-studies, while Cinema with evening screenings. First up is also debating the stylistic, performative and Freddy/Eddy (Tini Tüllmann), in which Freddy representational strategies that came to dominate finds himself in the biggest crisis of his life after such startling visions. In addition to its usual cult being accused of attacking his wife. While his film focus, this conference focus also considered world collapses, Eddy, his childhood imaginary the rising popularity of series such as The Walking friend reappears, with devastating results. This Dead, Penny Dreadful, American Horror Story, is followed by a UK premiere, Lou Simon’s 3 at and Supernatural, to assess what could be seen 8.30pm, which includes a Skype Q and A from Robert McLaughlin as a new golden age of horror TV. The issue was acclaimed female horror Lou Simon. Aptly debated by a panel of academic experts. Other named, this dark character-led piece centres topics discussed over the three days included the on a man and a woman who kidnap a potential films of John Carpenter, It Follows, alchemy in abuser in order to extract a confession from him film,Baise Moi and cinema traditions. regardless of the cost. Cine-Excess concludes with Graham Skipper’s Sequence Break at 10pm. For 2017, Cine-Excess XI is again hosted by In the tradition of David Cronenberg and body Birmingham City University in association with horror cinema, Sequence Break is a surreal sci-fi screening venues in the region. The conference romance, wherein a beautiful young woman and component of this year’s event is Fear and the strange metaphysical forces threaten the reality Unfamiliar: Wrong Time, Wrong Place, Wrong of a reclusive video arcade technician, resulting in Rob Anderson Crowd, and considers the ways in which marginal bizarre biomechanical transformations. groups and communities are constructed sources of fear and fascination in cult film traditions. We We very much hope you all enjoy the 11th year of are delighted to welcome back the iconic Italian Cine-Excess. director Sergio Martino (Torso, All the Colours of the Dark and The Violent Professionals), as our filmmaking Guest of Honour. Sergio Martino will be discussing his career as well as judging the Cine-Excess 2017 competition. On Thursday 9th November, he will be introducing a special screening of his influential thrillerYour Vice is a Locked Room and Only I have the Key (1972) at 7.30pm. This will be followed with a special concert devoted to Italian cult traditions. We’re especially pleased to welcome our keynote speaker for this year’s event, Professor Mark Jancovich (UEA), whose talk “Almost Psychopathic”: British Working Class Realism and the in the late 1950s and early 1960s takes place on Friday 10th November at 12 noon. While the conference component of Cine-Excess XI considers representations of marginal groups in cult film, the special panel ‘Communities on the 3 Cine-Excess XI Cine-Excess guest biographies Firs and Bromford Neighbours Together (FBNT) five short films that were nominated for numerous is the partnership delivering Big Local on the Firs prizes and shown at the London Film Festival, & Bromford Estates in the Hodge Hill area of East Cannes, on ITV, BBC and Channel 4. With writing Birmingham. FBNT is very proud of the fact that partner Adam English, Rich Matthews wrote 10 all the members of the Partnership Board are screenplays between 2005 and 2014, including two residents. It is the mission of FBNT to deliver a commissions, with seven optioned for development vision that states:- in Los Angeles and London. He remains a walking, “We wish to develop our community into a place talking example of a screenwriter who made a where all feel welcome, all feel that they belong and living even though nothing got made. Rich Matthews all feel that they can flourish, whatever path has has active option with the Russo Brothers new brought us to live together.” Chinese production company. His most recent works include Qualified, Golden Fire and now FBNT is working to deliver this vision by Searching for the Travelling People, all made for commissioning projects across six theme areas. Rural Media. Outside of Rural Media, he is currently These being:, Older People, Younger People, developing a new fiction short and writing his first Skills and Life Long Learning, Environment solo screenplay. and Community Safety, Health and Well Being, Celebrating Community. Rich Matthews will be attending Cine-Excess XI as a contributor to the Communities on the Edge panel Representatives from the Firs and Bromford on Friday 10th November at 3.30pm. Mark Jancovich Neighbours Together Partnership will be attending Cine-Excess XI as contributors to the Communities Federica Martino is the latest creative generation on the Edge panel on Friday 10th November at from a family that has dominated continental cult 3.30pm. and horror cinema for more than sixty years. Her father Sergio Martino helmed some of Europe’s Mark Jancovich is Professor of Film and Television the most iconic horror films of the 1970s, including Studies at the University of East Anglia, UK. He The Case of the Scorpion’s Tail (1971),Your Vice is the author of several books: Horror (Batsford, is a Locked Door and Only I have the Key, All 1992); The Cultural Politics of the New Criticism the Colours of the Dark (both 1972), and the (CUP, 1993); Rational Fears: American Horror in the international hit Torso (1973). Federica’s late uncle 1950s (MUP, 1996); and The Place of the Audience: showcased his brother’s work Rich Matthews Cultural Geographies of Film Consumption, (with through the acclaimed distribution house Dania Lucy Faire and Sarah Stubbings, BFI, 2003). He is Films, which continues to be a prominent force in also the editor several collections: Approaches to international exhibitions well into the 21st century. Popular Film (with Joanne Hollows, MUP, 1995); The Film Studies Reader (with Joanne Hollows and As a media professional in her own right, Federica Peter Hutchings, Arnold/OUP, 2000); Horror, The Martino is a director and screenwriter who Film Reader (Routledge, 2001); Quality Popular graduated in 1995 from NYU Tisch School of The Television: Cult TV, the Industry and Fans (with Arts. She has directed Beauty Queen Olivia (2002), James Lyons, BFI, 2003); Defining Cult Movies: The her first that granted her, among other Cultural Politics of Oppositional Taste (with Antonio prizes, The Best New Director Award at Brooklyn Lazaro-Reboll, Julian Stringer and Andrew Willis, Film Festival and a TV production called L’ultima Federica Martino MUP, 2003); Film Histories: An Introduction and battuta for the TV series Crimini aired on Rai2. Reader (with Paul Grainge and Sharon Monteith, Federica is currently working on a number of EUP, 2006); Film and Comic Books (with Ian Gordon horror film productions, which include plans to and Matthew P. McAllister, University Press of remake some of her father’s most iconic titles Mississippi, 2007); and The Shifting Definitions of from a feminist perspective. Other productions : Essays on Labeling Films, Television Shows that Federica is currently developing include Girl and Media (with Lincoln Geraghty, McFarland, Hunt, which fuses backwoods horror motifs with a 2008). He was also the founder of Scope: An Online spate of real life honour killings that occurred in Journal of Film Studies; is series editor (with Eric Southern Italy. Schaefer) of the MUP book series, Inside Popular Film; and is series editor (with Charles Acland) Federica Martino will be attending Cine-Excess XI Sergio Martino of the Berg book series, Film Genres. After over as a contributor to the Communities on the Edge a decade researching the history of horror in the panel on Friday 10th November at 3.30pm and the 1940s, he is now working on horror in the 1960s. Tales of Terror 2017 short competition on Friday 10th November at 5pm. Rich Matthews is Development Manager at the film and digital arts charity Rural Media. He has worked Sergio Martino remains one of Europe’s most iconic in media for 20 years for the likes of the BBC, BFI, and inventive directors. Having worked in a variety BT, Sky, Warner Bros, CBS, NBC Universal, News of genres and capacities, Martino (along with his UK, BAFTA, The Independent and The Telegraph late producer/brother Luciano) came to public Media Group. He’s done everything from fact- prominence in the 1970s, with a series of genre checking celeb vital statistics for Total Film through productions which reflected the contemporary to pitching to top Hollywood executives. He has an aspirations and fears of the post-war Italian mind- MA in Film and Television from the BFI, has written set. With early documentary titles such as Mondo for Sight & Sound, Empire and Total Film, and made Sex (1969) and Naked and Violent (1970), Sergio 4 Martino effectively captured a changing nation’s something from our site mouththatroars.com - prior perceptions of its own place within a cosmopolitan, to MTR Denise was (and still is) a youth worker and international milieu. These titles also showcased worked in various roles in mainstream media. a set of cinematographic skills that would be fine-tuned in his later fictionalised features. Here, Denise Rose will be attending Cine-Excess XI as a Martino pioneered a series of stylish thrillers, saucy contributor to the Communities on the Edge panel sexy comedies and no-nonsense tough cop dramas on Friday 10th November at 3.30pm. which all directly fed into wider Italian concerns of the era. Lara Ratnaraja is a freelance consultant specialising in ideas, innovation, leadership, collaboration, From fears of urban violence and the rise of Italian cultural policy implementation within the feminism, to more longstanding issues of rural HE, cultural and digital sector. She develops Italian development, the cinema of Sergio Martino and delivers projects and policy on how cultural used genre imagery to examine the turbulent and digital technology intersect for a number of and changing Italian scene of the decade. For national partners as well as programmes around instance, between 1970 and 1974, he created a leadership, resilience and business development for series of influential and often controversialgialli the arts and creative industries. titles including The Case of the Scorpion’s Tail (1971), Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I have She co-curates Hello Culture an ongoing series of the Key, All the Colours of the Dark (both 1972) events that explores how digital technologies and and Torso (1973), all of which fused psychosexual media are disrupting the way cultural and heritage dynamics within wider examinations of the organisations can produce, interact, create, curate generational conflicts between the countercultural content, transforming how audiences can connect and conservative forces of the era. Beyond these and engage with cultural experiences (helloculture. titles, the director often fused sexual and social co.uk). She is also a Consultant for Birmingham City examinations with his contributions to the Italian University’s STEAMhouse programme developing tough cop cycle, with entries such as The Violent research collaborations Conrad Parke Professionals (1973) and Gambling City (1975) using the toxic terrorist context of the ‘leaden years’ Lara Ratnaraja will be attending Cine-Excess XI as a to explore masculine anxieties. Throughout all of contributor to the Communities on the Edge panel these cycles, Martino’s movies were marked by a on Friday 10th November at 3.30pm. strong sense of cinematography, editing and use of experimental colour techniques, which has proven Gillian Youngs is currently Professor of Creative influential to recent generations of international and Digital Economy and Head of Innovation and directors such as Quentin Tarantino and Eli Roth. Impact in the Westminster School of Media, Arts Having previously honoured Sergio Martino with a and Design, University of Westminster. Gillian works Cine-Excess Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012, on innovation at the intersections of the start-up we are delighted to host his return visit to the and research sectors and is focusing increasingly Denise Rose festival in 2017. on the investment sector as an integral element of (Mouth That Roars) the knowledge ecosystem. She has a background in Sergio Martino will be attending Cine-Excess XI to media, communications consultancy, and research present a screening of Your Vice is a Locked Room and academic leadership and has taught and and Only I Have the Key on Thursday 9th November undertaken research at universities in Europe, at 7.30pm. He will also be participating in the the the USA and East Asia. She is one of the longest Tales of Terror 2017 short competition on Friday standing researchers in the UK on the impact of 10th November at 5pm. Internet developments on economy and society.

Conrad Parke has been working in regeneration As an applied theorist, she is actively engaged for the past 20 years. Before that he was a in knowledge exchange and business and policy manufacturing engineer, youth worker and a social related processes, including through the Knowledge Lara Ratnaraja worker. Transfer Network of the UK’s innovation agency, Innovate UK. Projects Gillian has recently led The majority of his regeneration experience comes include: an ESRC research seminar series on Digital from working at a neighbourhood level either as Policy and edited collection from the series titled a co-ordinator between different services or as Digital World: Connectivity, Creativity and Rights a link between services and the community. In published by Routledge in 2013; the AHRC funded more recent years Conrad have been working for Brighton Fuse ‘Fusebox’ Knowledge Exchange Sandwell MBC as a Regeneration & Partnerships project focused on the development of, and manager leading on the three projects: a LEP research on, a new start-up support programme funding programme for SME’s, the regeneration for innovators at Wired Sussex in Brighton. She was impact of the new Midland Metropolitan Hospital also co-chair of the Design Commission inquiry Gillian Youngs and USE-IT!, a European programme funded as part ‘Designing the Digital Economy: Embedding Growth of UIA (Urban Innovation Action). Conrad Parke Through Design, Innovation and Technology’, which also works as a neighbourhood advisor for the reported in May 2014. She has been engaged with National Lottery. Innovate UK’s Digital Catapult Centre since its launch and while Professor of Digital Economy at Conrad Parke will be attending Cine-Excess XI as a University of Brighton was academic lead for the contributor to the Communities on the Edge panel ‘Internet of Place’ concept for the launch of the on Friday 10th November at 3.30pm. Digital Catapult Centre Brighton.

Denise Rose set up Mouth That Roars youth media Gillian Youngs will be attending Cine-Excess XI as a organisation in 1998 to enable marganlised young contributor to the Communities on the Edge panel people access to media resources and be the film on Friday 10th November at 3.30pm. producers of their own stories - or you can take 5 Cine-Excess XI Fear and the Unfamiliar: Wrong Time, Wrong Place, Wrong Crowd 9th-11th November 2017

DAY 1: Birmingham City University, Margaret Street Campus - Thursday 9th November 2017 10am-11am Conference Registration and Coffee: Margaret Street Foyer, BCU 11am-11.30am CONFERENCE WELCOME (seminar room IPS) Deadlier than the Male- The Transgressive Female Other on and Off Screen 1. Begoña Gutiérrez Martínez (Independent scholar): Analysing Women in Film: 11.30am-1.00pm PANEL 1 The Dialectics of the Femme Fatale and the Masochist Male. (Seminar room IPS) 2. Tamao Nakahara (Independent scholar) Wrong Women: Leveraging Cult Nostalgia to CHAIR: JULIE RIPLEY Re-write Transgression. 3. Helen Gascoyne (Lincoln College): The Monstrous Regiment of Women. 1.00pm – 2.00pm LUNCH Global Visions of the Rural Other 1. Lee Broughton (Independent Scholar) The Vampires’ Night Orgy (1973): Reframing Folk 2.00pm-3.30pm PANEL 2 Horror and the European Vampire Mythos on Screen (Seminar room IPS) 2. Jennifer Wallis (Queen Mary University of London): Figures in the Landscape: The CHAIR: CALUM WADDELL Threat of the Wilderness in Canadian Film. 3. Rui Oliveira (Northumbria University): Cultural specificity in Italian and Spanish horror of the 1970s. 3.45pm-4pm Coffee Film Ripped Open 2017 3.45pm-5.30pm PANEL 3 For the second year Cine-Excess is delighted to host the Film Ripped Open competition, (Seminar room IPS) which requires film students to complete the most compelling critique of a cult film classic, CHAIR: FRAN PHEASANT-KELLY while a panel convene the dialogue and discuss winning entries. 5-6pm 5pm-6pm Cine-Excess XI Opening Night Reception 6.00pm - 7.30pm Still/Born (Brandon Christensen, Canada 2017) Cine-Excess Screening 1 7.30pm-12am Mondo Profondo Cult Concert (Birmingham and Midland Institute) Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (Sergio Martino, Italy 1972) 7.30pm - 9.00pm Introduced by Director Sergio Martino 9.00 onwards Profondo Mondo and Agents of Evolution do Cult Italian Grooves

DAY 2: Birmingham City University, Margaret Street Campus - Friday 10th November 2017 9.30am-10am Conference Registration and Coffee: Margaret Street Foyer, BCU Sexual and Racial Visions of the Unfamiliar 1. Daniel Sheppard (University of East Anglia): AIDS and Other Killers: Queer Villainy in 1980s Slasher Cinema. 10.00am-11.45pm PANEL 4 2. Alex Fitch (University of Brighton): ‘Get Out! Nostalgia for Youth, Racial Superiority, and (Seminar room IPS) the Subjugated Zombie’. CHAIR: JENNIFER WALLIS 3. Kirsty Worrow (Shrewsbury College): This is My Design: The Construction of the Perspective of the “Other” In NBC’s Hannibal. 4. Ben Halligan (University of Wolverhampton): On David Hamilton and Bilitis.

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6 DAY 2: Birmingham City University, Margaret Street Campus - Friday 10th November 2017 continued “Almost Psychopathic”: British Working Class Realism and the Horror Film in the late 12.00-12.45pm 1950s and early 1960s. CINE-EXCESS XI KEYNOTE Professor Mark Jancovich (University of East Anglia) 12.45pm-1.45pm Lunch Auteur Visions: Wrong Time, Wrong Place, Wrong Crowd 1. Tom Fallows (University of Exeter): Independent Dreams, American Nightmares: Industrial Transgression and Critical Organisation in the work of George A. Romero, 1978- 1.45pm-3.15pm PANEL 5 1982. (Seminar room IPS) 2. Julie Ripley (University of Falmouth): In With the Sin Crowd: Modernity as Marker of CHAIR: ALEX FITCH Migrant Identity in All the Colours of the Dark (Sergio Martino, 1972) 3. Ryan Taylor (University of Plymouth): The Return of the Repressed in Takashi Miike’s Audition (1999). 3.15pm-3.30pm Coffee 4.00pm-5.00pm Communities on the Edge THE CINE-EXCESS 2017 Chaired by Professor Gillian Youngs (University of WestmInster) INDUSTRY PANEL Tales of Terror 2017 5.00pm-6.00pm PANEL 6 For the second year Cine-Excess is delighted to host the Tales of Terror short film (Seminar room IPS) competition, which this year will feature Guest of Honour Sergio Martino and a panel of CHAIR: EUGENIO TRIANA experts discussing competition entries in relation to this year’s theme of Wrong Time, Wrong Place, Wrong Crowd. 7.00pm-8.00pm Beset by Demons (Kim Henkel/Brian Huberman, USA, 2017) Cine-Excess Screening 2 UK Theatrical Premiere – with Skype Q and A from Kim Henkel and Brian Huberman (Seminar room IPS)

DAY 3: Birmingham City University, Margaret Street Campus - Saturday 11th November 2017 9.30am-10am Conference Registration and Coffee: Margaret Street Foyer, BCU Colonial and the Local: Transnational Visions of the Other 1. James Newton (Canterbury Christ Church University) Horrible Content/Horrible Form: 10.00am-11.30am PANEL 7 Politics and the ‘Problem’ of the Women in . (Seminar room IPS) 2. Erin Wiegand (Northumbria University) Savages and Social Justice Warriors: Eli Roth’s CHAIR: DAVID SWEENEY The Green Inferno and Contemporary “Culture Wars.” 3. Calum Waddell (Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University): One Country, Two Cinema: Hong Kong Category III Films 11.30am-12.00 Coffee 12.00pm-1.30pm Cine-Excess Screening 4 Incarnation (Filip Kovacevic, Serbia, 2017) (Seminar room IPS) 1.30pm-2.30pm Lunch The Gothic Other – Cross Media Terrors, Old and New 1. David Sweeney (Glasgow School of Art): A Lost, Hazy Disquiet: Hookland, Scarfolk and 2.30pm-4.00pm PANEL 8 the ‘Haunted Generation’. (Seminar room IPS) 2. Robert M. Francis (University of Wolverhampton): The Body Unheimlich CHAIR: JAMES NEWTON 3. Boyarkina Iren (Independent scholar): Frankenstein: Fear and the Unfamiliar. On the Crossroads of Film and Literature. 4. Thomas Sweet (Independent Scholar): “Someone Manufactured You. For a Purpose.” CONFERENCE END 5.00pm DELEGATES CONFERENCE MEAL (BOOKING REQUIRED) 6.30pm-8.00pm (The Mockingbird Cinema) Freddy/Eddy (Tini Tüllmann, Germany, 2016) Cine-Excess Screening 5 8.30pm-10.00pm Lou Simon’s 3 (Lou Simon, USA, 2017) UK Theatrical Premiere - with Skype Q and A from Director Lou Simon (The Mockingbird Cinema) Warning – contains some scenes that some viewers may find disturbing Cine-Excess Screening 6 10.00pm-11.30pm Sequence Break (Graham Skipper, Canada, 2017) (The Mockingbird Cinema) Cine-Excess Screening 7

7 Cine-Excess XI Screening Season, The short screening season Wrong Time, Wrong Place, Wrong Crowd considers the ways in which marginal groups alienated communities and isolated loners become the source of fear and fascination in cult film traditions. The season comprises of UK theatrical premieres and exclusive screenings, which take place at the following venues:

Thursday 9th International Project Space November 2017 Birmingham City University, Margaret Street Campus

Still/Born Brandon Christensen’s terrifying film has given new life to the Brandon Christensen, longstanding fears that surround the maternal figure in horror Canada, 2017 cinema. In the film, Mary gives birth to two twins but only one of them 6.00PM survives. While battling grief and taking care of her remaining child, Cert 18 (TBC) Adam, she begins to suspect that a supernatural entity will stop at nothing to take it from her

Thursday 9th Birmingham and Midland Institute November 2017 Your Vice is a Locked Introduced by director Sergio Martino himself, this cult adaptation Room and Only I Have of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Black Cat showcases the Italian filmmaker’s the Key interests in narrative and stylistic complexity to good effect. The film Sergio Martino, focuses on the crumbling relationship between a destructive writer Italy, 1972 and his unstable wife, whose marital tensions boil over when a series 7.30PM of grisly murders taking place in the locality Cert 18

Profondo Mondo and Playing 9pm until late, musical cult aficionados theAgents of Agents of Evolution do Evolution provide a musical tour through the most iconic sights and Cult Italian Grooves sounds of Italian trash cinema. 9.00PM onwards

Friday 10th International Project Space November 2017 Birmingham City University, Margaret Street Campus Beset by Demons Having previously defined the modern face of the marginal rural other Kim Henkel/Brian Huberman, with The Texas Chain Saw Massacre in 1974, screenwriter Kim Henkel USA, 2017 returns to his chain saw legacy in a compelling new documentary. This 7.00PM new project sees him working with realist filmmaker Brian Huberman Cert 18 (TBC) to document the life and brutal murder of the cult actor Lou Perryman (The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 2). Probing both the dark UK Theatrical Premiere - family ties that motivated Perryman’s subsequent roles, as well as the with Skype Q and A from Kim events that led to his untimely demise, Beset by Demons is a must see Henkel and Brian Huberman real life expose for chain saw and true crime fans alike.

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Camera Obscura Jack Zeller is an intelligent, solitary man who continues to struggle Aaron B Koontz, with events he witnessed as a war photographer. He receives a USA, 2017 strange camera as an anniversary gift. As he develops the film, Jack 8.00PM realizes that the images show imminent deaths in the locations he Cert 18 (TBC) has photographed.

UK Theatrical Premiere - with Warning – contains scenes that some viewers may find Skype Q and A from Director disturbing Aaron B. Koontz

Saturday 11th International Project Space November 2017 Birmingham City University, Margaret Street Campus

Incarnation The need to find answers to a perplexing life is a central theme to Filip Kovacevic, this Serbian thriller about an amnesiac man who tries to recover his Serbia, 2017 identity and find out who’s trying to kill him. 12.00PM Cert 18 (TBC)

Saturday 11th The Mockingbird Cinema November 2017 Freddy finds himself in the biggest crisis of his life after being accused Freddy/Eddy of attacking his wife. While his world collapses, Eddy, his childhood Tini Tüllmann, imaginary friend reappears, with devastating results. Germany, 2016 7.30PM Cert 18 (TBC)

Lou Simon’s 3 Acclaimed female horror auteur Lou Simon returns to Cine-Excess Lou Simon, with the UK theatrical premiere of her unrelenting new thriller. USA, 2017 Aptly named, this dark character led piece centres on the violent 8.00PM interchange between 3 characters, when a man and a woman kidnap Cert 18 (TBC) her abuser in order to extract a confession regardless of the cost.

UK Theatrical Premiere - Warning – contains scenes that some viewers may find with Skype Q and A from disturbing Director Lou Simon

Sequence Break In the tradition of David Cronenberg and body horror cinema, Graham Skipper, Canada, Sequence Break is a surreal sci-fi romance, wherein a beautiful young 2017 woman and strange metaphysical forces threaten the reality of a 10.00PM reclusive video arcade technician, resulting in bizarre biomechanical Cert 18 (TBC) transformations.

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10 Cine-Excess XI Credits and Thanks

Cine-Excess XI Are:

Xavier Mendik Director of Cine-Excess XI [email protected]

Robert Anderson Associate Director of Cine-Excess XI [email protected]

Fran Pheasant-Kelly Co-Director of Cine-Excess XI [email protected]

Robert McLaughlin Co-Director of Cine-Excess XI [email protected]

Robert Sharl Co-Director of Cine-Excess XI [email protected]

Eugenio Triana Co-Director of Cine-Excess XI [email protected]

Paul Smith Co-Director of Cine-Excess (PR) [email protected]

Paul Johnson Co-Director of Cine-Excess (Design) [email protected]

Cine-Excess XI Brochure Designed By: Gareth Courage Front and back cover illustration By: Ash Loyden

The Cine-Excess XI Team Thank:

Gaz Bailey (Abertoir Film Festival), Mike Bickerton (Birmingham City University), Louise Buckler (Arrow Films), James Anderson Brown (The Mockingbird Cinema), Jon Colen (Birmingham City University), Codie Entwistle (Arrow Films), Kim Henkel, Mike Hewitt (Arrow Films), Brian Huberman, Andrew van den Houten (Hood River Entertainment), Phil Howkins (Firs & Bromford Neighbours Together), Professor Mark Jancovich (University of East Anglia), David Kennedy (Birmingham City Council), Aaron B. Koontz, Ash Loyden, Rich Matthews (Rural Media), Federica Martino, Sergio Martino, Conrad Parke (Neighbourhood Regeneration Advisor), David Read (Cultzilla), Julian Richards (Jinga Films), Lou Simon, Martin Simms (Film Birmingham), Charmaine Stint (Birmingham City University), Connie Wan (Birmingham and Midland Institute), Oliver Williams (Birmingham City University), Gillian Youngs (University of Westminster). Cine-Excess XI is supported by

11 Cine-Excess XII 8th- 10th November 2018 I Know What You Starred in Last Summer: Featuring a Posthumous Cine-Excess Lifetime Global Perspectives on Cult Performance Achievement Award for Vincent Price

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