secret.screening.01 // 07.31.22

dir. Samuel Fuller // (1963) // 101 mins / 11:00AM

// Bent on winning a Pulitzer Prize, a journalist commits himself to a mental institution to solve a strange and unclear murder.

dir. Jaromil Jirea // (1970) // 77 mins / 1:00PM

// Valerie, a Czechoslovakian teenager living with her grandmother, is blossoming into womanhood, but that transformation proves secondary to the effects she experiences when she puts on a pair of magic earrings. Now seeing the world around her in a different light, Valerie must endure her sexual awakening while attempting to discern reality from fantasy as she encounters lecherous priest Gracian, a vampire-like stranger and otherworldly carnival folk.

dir. Jean Cocteau // (1932) // 55 mins / 3:00PM

// One of cinema's great experiments, this first installment of the Orphic Trilogy stretches the medium to its limits in an effort to capture the poet's obsession with the struggle between the forces of life and death.

dir. Federico Fellini // (1969) // 129 mins / 4:30PM

// After his young lover, Gitone (Max Born), leaves him for another man, Encolpio (Martin Potter) decides to kill himself, but a sudden earthquake destroys his home before he has a chance to do so. Now wandering around Rome in the time of Nero, Encolpio encounters one bizarre and surreal scene after another. He's invited to a poetry reading that ends in violence; is taken hostage by pirates; and is even forced to battle a gladiator disguised as a minotaur in a giant labyrinth.

dir. Hiroshi Teshigahara // (1967) // 121 mins / 7:00PM

// After an explosion disfigures a man, a lifelike mask gives him freedom, but with it comes a change of personality.

dir. Teruo Ishii // (1969) // 99 mins / 9:30PM

// After escaping from an insane asylum, a medical student assumes the identity of a mysterious dead man, who appeared to be his doppelganger, and gets lured to a sinister island ruled by a mad scientist and his malformed men.

dir. Helene Cattet & Bruno Forzani // (2013) // 102 mins / 11:30PM

// When his wife disappears, a man investigates the dark and twisted trails in the halls of his apartment building. Led on a wild goose chase of cryptic messages he finds himself in a hellish nightmare with strange fantasies of sensuality and bloodshed.