AU HASARD - SCREENINGS

Free and Open to All - Alternate Saturdays from 1pm

Location: Room B18, Birkbeck College, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HX

I. INCARCERATION - Saturday 21st January

'The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth.' John 3, 8

1pm

A Man Escaped, or The Wind Bloweth Where it Listeth

Directed by Robert Bresson (France, 1957, 99 mins)

2.50pm

The Woman of the Dunes

Directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara (Japan, 1964, 123 mins)

II. GUILT - Saturday 4th February

'After all, our department, as far as I know, and I know only the lowest level, doesn't seek out guilt among the general population, but, as the Law states, is attracted by guilt and has to send us guards out. That's the Law. What mistake could there be?' Franz Kafka

1pm

Death by Hanging

Directed by Nagisa Oshima (Japan, 1968, 117 mins)

3.15pm

The Round Up

Directed by Miklós Janscó (Hungary, 1965, 95 mins)

III. SUBMISSION - Saturday 18^th February

'Every good servant does not all commands.' William Shakespeare

1pm

The Servant

Directed by Joseph Losey (UK, 1963, 112 mins)

3pm

The Diary of a Chambermaid

Directed by Luis Buñuel (France/Italy, 1964, 97 mins)

IV. MARQUIS DE SADE - Saturday 10th March ***note change of date***
'What De Sade was trying to bring to the surface of the conscious mind was precisely the thing that revolted that mind... From the very first he set before consciousness things which is could not tolerate.' Georges Bataille

1pm

Marat/Sade (The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade)

Directed by Peter Brook (UK, 1967, 116 mins)

3pm

Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom

Directed by Pier Paulo Pasolini (Italy, 1975, 116 mins)

V. CHILDHOOD - Saturday 17^th March

'Oh hours of childhood,
when behind each shape more than the past appeared
and what streamed out before us was not the future.'

Rainer Maria Rilke

1pm

Zero For Conduct

Directed by Jean Vigo (France, 1933, 41 mins)

1.50pm

Le Révélateur

Directed by Philippe Garrel (France, 1968, 67 mins)

3.15pm

Viva La Muerte

Directed by Fernando Arrabal (France, 1971, 90 mins)

VI. MUTINY - Saturday 31^st March

'The very forms of organization of the struggle will suggest... a different vocabulary - Brother, sister, friend.' Franz Fanon

1pm

Kanal

Directed by Andrzej Wajda (Poland, 1956, 95 mins)

2.50pm

The Battle of Algiers

Directed by Gillo Pontecorvo (Algeria, 1966, 121 mins)