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Fear and the Unfamiliar: Wrong Time, Wrong Place, Wrong Crowd

Guest of Honour: Sergio Martino (All the Colours of the Dark, Torso, The Violent Professionals)

Keynote Speaker: Professor Mark Jancovich (UEA)

Cine-Excess XI 9th- 11th November 2017

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Dear Delegates, Colleagues and FriendsIt is with great pleasure and pridethat we welcome you to the 11th Cine-Excess International Film Festival

Cine-Excess XI (www.cine-excess.co.uk) is this year hosted by Birmingham City University, the Birmingham and Midland Institute and the Mockingbird Cinema in order to stage an international film conference and festival that considers cult cinema cultures from around the world.

Having now reached its 11th year of operation, it is worth briefly reflecting on the evolution of the event. Cine-Excess was conceived as a unique industry-into-academia forum that began in May 2007, with an event featuring a three day conference and guest visits by international filmmakers including John Landis (An American Werewolf in London). Cine-Excess II (May 2008) was an even bigger occasion, with Roger Corman receiving the first Cine-Excess Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his outstanding career as a leading cult director and producer.

Cine-Excess III (May 2009) saw proceedings move to the Odeon Covent Garden, with Italian horror legend Dario Argento and Goblin composer Claudio Simonetti attending to receive Cine-Excess Lifetime Achievement Awards for their work. The 2009 event was also significant for launching the Nouveaux Pictures-Cine-Excess DVD label, which has released a number of titles including the first UK Blu-ray release of Argento’s Suspiria (1977). Cine-Excess IV (May 2010) hosted a visit by horror icon Joe Dante, who here premiered the UK cut of his lost 1968 cult collage epic The Movie Orgy. Cine-Excess IV further continued its commitment to showcasing leading critical thinkers in the field, with Professor Richard Dyer delivering a keynote address on European serial killers, which complemented the 2010 themed conference of ‘Corporeal Excess: Cult Bodies.’

Cine-Excess V (May 2011) hosted visits by Italian acting legend Franco Nero (Django, Keoma, Die Hard 2) and controversial cult director Ruggero Deodato (Cannibal Holocaust, House on the Edge of the Park), both of whose presence perfectly suited the 2011 theme of ‘Subverting the Senses: The Politics and Aesthetics of Excess.’ As well as headlining the world theatrical premiere of Deodato’s new director’s cut of Cannibal Holocaust, the event also presented a historic panel discussion between the director, academics and BBFC examiners. Cine-Excess VI was held in conjunction with the Italian Cultural Institute

in London, and featured a three day conference theme that explored global constructions of cult adaptation. Additionally, the event hosted the iconic European directors Enzo G. Castellari (The Inglorious Bast***s, Keoma) and Sergio Martino (Torso, The Violent Professionals) as Guests of Honour, as well as a special ‘Script to Scream’ panel discussion on new horror talent that was supported by Time Out magazine.

2013 saw us collaborating with the B-Film: The Birmingham Centre for Film Studies for the production of Cine-Excess VII: European Erotic Excess: Identity Desire and Disgust. We were honoured to host visits by Catherine Breillat (Romance, Anatomy of Hell, Abuse of Weakness) and Francesco Barilli (Perfume of the Lady in Black, Pensiona paura), both of whom have created iconic and yet challenging and controversial representations of European eroticism that were dealt with by the wider conference component of the 2013 event. Alongside a special themed ‘Dark Romance’ season exploring the obsessive extremes of desire, Cine-Excess VII facilitated the special industry panel ‘Echoes of Excess: Cult Film Creation, Financing and the Digital Economy’, which considered how new technology is changing the creation of cult content.

Cine-Excess VIII was the first of two years that saw the event taking place at the University of Brighton’s Sallis Benney theatre. The theme of Cine-Excess VIII in 2014 was ‘Are You ready for the Country: Cult Cinema and Rural Excess’, which contemplated cult cinema’s continued fascination with the countryside and its inhabitants. We were honoured to host a visit by cult American film director Jeff Lieberman (Squirm, Blue Sunshine, Just Before Dawn), whose iconic titles have frequently explored longstanding fears of rural degeneracy. Cine-Excess VIII also tackled the issue of contemporary cult film funding and audience design with the special industry panel ‘Cult Crowdfunders’ that paired film directors with contemporary audience designers and crowdfunding platform creators. In conjunction with these exciting debates, the two day conference Are You Ready for the Country: Cult Cinema and Rural Excess ran across the daytime slots of the entire festival, and featured a range of fascinating panels from international scholars in the field.

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Eugenio Triana

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The second Brighton based event was Cine-Excess IX in 2015. Here, the theme of ‘Historical Trauma, Hysterical Texts: Cult Film in Times of Crisis’ considered how the cult image acts as an uncomfortable mirror of wider social concerns. Courtesy of Brighton City Council, Cine Excess was able to offer a rare uncut public screening of the controversial Canadian home invasion movie Death Weekend, while its veteran director William Fruet (Death Weekend [1976], Wedding in White [1972] and Search and Destroy [1979]) accepted his Cine-Excess Lifetime Achievement Award in Toronto before addressing delegates via conference call to discuss how his films reflected wider social tensions. Fruet’s participation was complemented by the attendance of iconic comic book creator Pat Mills (Action Magazine, 2000AD and Slaine) at Cine-Excess IX. Pat participated in the special panel debate ‘Poor, Angry White Kids’, in which he discussed the social significance of his controversial comic book creation Action before receiving a Cine-Excess Lifetime Achievement Award from Professor Martin Barker and former 2000AD artist Jim McCarthy.

For its 10th anniversary, Cult Genres, Traditions and Bodies: A Decade of Excess, Cine-Excess moved to Birmingham. Here, international critics and scholars assessed a range of classic and contemporary cult film case-studies, while also debating the stylistic, performative and representational strategies that came to dominate such startling visions. In addition to its usual cult film focus, this conference focus also considered the rising popularity of series such as The Walking Dead, Penny Dreadful, American Horror Story, and Supernatural, to assess what could be seen as a new golden age of horror TV. The issue was debated by a panel of academic experts. Other topics discussed over the three days included the films of John Carpenter, It Follows, alchemy in film, Baise Moi and Grindhouse cinema traditions.

For 2017, Cine-Excess XI is again hosted by Birmingham City University in association with screening venues in the region. The conference component of this year’s event is Fear and the Unfamiliar: Wrong Time, Wrong Place, Wrong Crowd, and considers the ways in which marginal groups and communities are constructed sources of fear and fascination in cult film traditions. We are delighted to welcome back the iconic Italian 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 short film competition. On Thursday 9th November, he will be introducing a special screening of his influential thriller Your 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 Horror Film 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

Edge’ profiles a current project by a Birmingham housing group, who are creating a zombie film short in conjunction with Birmingham City University staff and students in order to document residents perceptions of urban regeneration and its impact on community relations.

Highlights of this year’s screening season include UK premiere Beset by Demons, which is scheduled for Friday 10th November (7pm-8pm) with Skype Q and A from co-creators Kim Henkel and Brian Huberman. The film details the life and brutal murder of The Texas Chain Saw Masacre II cult actor Lou Perryman and is a must see real life exposé for chainsaw and true crime fans alike. Other films programmed for Friday evening include Aaron B Koontz’s debut film Camera Obscura, which centres on a returning Iraq war photographer suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, who finds himself plagued by images of impending death in the images he shoots. Screenings scheduled for Saturday noon include Incarnation, directed by Filip Kovacevic. Here, the need to find answers to a perplexing life is a central theme to this Serbian time loop thriller about an amnesiac man who tries to recover his identity and find out who’s trying to kill him. Following the Conference Dinner, Cine-Excess XI rounds off at the Mockingbird Cinema with evening screenings. First up is Freddy/Eddy (Tini Tüllmann), in which Freddy finds himself in the biggest crisis of his life after being accused of attacking his wife. While his world collapses, Eddy, his childhood imaginary friend reappears, with devastating results. This is followed by a UK premiere, Lou Simon’s 3 at 8.30pm, which includes a Skype Q and A from acclaimed female horror auteur Lou Simon. Aptly named, this dark character-led piece centres on a man and a woman who kidnap a potential abuser in order to extract a confession from him regardless of the cost. Cine-Excess concludes with Graham Skipper’s Sequence Break at 10pm. In the tradition of David Cronenberg and body horror cinema, Sequence Break is a surreal sci-fi romance, wherein a beautiful young woman and strange metaphysical forces threaten the reality of a reclusive video arcade technician, resulting in bizarre biomechanical transformations.

We very much hope you all enjoy the 11th year of Cine-Excess.

Rob Anderson

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Firs and Bromford Neighbours Together (FBNT) is the partnership delivering Big Local on the Firs & Bromford Estates in the Hodge Hill area of East Birmingham. FBNT is very proud of the fact that all the members of the Partnership Board are residents. It is the mission of FBNT to deliver a vision that states:-“We wish to develop our community into a place where all feel welcome, all feel that they belong and all feel that they can flourish, whatever path has brought us to live together.”

FBNT is working to deliver this vision by commissioning projects across six theme areas. These being:, Older People, Younger People, Skills and Life Long Learning, Environment and Community Safety, Health and Well Being, Celebrating Community.

Representatives from the Firs and Bromford Neighbours Together Partnership will be attending Cine-Excess XI as contributors to the Communities on the Edge panel on Friday 10th November at 3.30pm.

Mark Jancovich is Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of East Anglia, UK. He is the author of several books: Horror (Batsford, 1992); The Cultural Politics of the New Criticism (CUP, 1993); Rational Fears: American Horror in the 1950s (MUP, 1996); and The Place of the Audience: Cultural Geographies of Film Consumption, (with Lucy Faire and Sarah Stubbings, BFI, 2003). He is also the editor several collections: Approaches to Popular Film (with Joanne Hollows, MUP, 1995); The Film Studies Reader (with Joanne Hollows and Peter Hutchings, Arnold/OUP, 2000); Horror, The Film Reader (Routledge, 2001); Quality Popular Television: Cult TV, the Industry and Fans (with James Lyons, BFI, 2003); Defining Cult Movies: The Cultural Politics of Oppositional Taste (with Antonio Lazaro-Reboll, Julian Stringer and Andrew Willis, MUP, 2003); Film Histories: An Introduction and Reader (with Paul Grainge and Sharon Monteith, EUP, 2006); Film and Comic Books (with Ian Gordon and Matthew P. McAllister, University Press of Mississippi, 2007); and The Shifting Definitions of Genre: Essays on Labeling Films, Television Shows and Media (with Lincoln Geraghty, McFarland, 2008). He was also the founder of Scope: An Online Journal of Film Studies; is series editor (with Eric Schaefer) of the MUP book series, Inside Popular Film; and is series editor (with Charles Acland) of the Berg book series, Film Genres. After over a decade researching the history of horror in the 1940s, he is now working on horror in the 1960s.

Rich Matthews is Development Manager at the film and digital arts charity Rural Media. He has worked in media for 20 years for the likes of the BBC, BFI, BT, Sky, Warner Bros, CBS, NBC Universal, News UK, BAFTA, The Independent and The Telegraph Media Group. He’s done everything from fact-checking celeb vital statistics for Total Film through to pitching to top Hollywood executives. He has an MA in Film and Television from the BFI, has written for Sight & Sound, Empire and Total Film, and made

five short films that were nominated for numerous prizes and shown at the London Film Festival, Cannes, on ITV, BBC and Channel 4. With writing partner Adam English, Rich Matthews wrote 10 screenplays between 2005 and 2014, including two commissions, with seven optioned for development in Los Angeles and London. He remains a walking, talking example of a screenwriter who made a living even though nothing got made. Rich Matthews has active option with the Russo Brothers new Chinese production company. His most recent works include Qualified, Golden Fire and now Searching for the Travelling People, all made for Rural Media. Outside of Rural Media, he is currently developing a new fiction short and writing his first solo screenplay.

Rich Matthews will be attending Cine-Excess XI as a contributor to the Communities on the Edge panel on Friday 10th November at 3.30pm.

Federica Martino is the latest creative generation from a family that has dominated continental cult and horror cinema for more than sixty years. Her father Sergio Martino helmed some of Europe’s the most iconic horror films of the 1970s, including The Case of the Scorpion’s Tail (1971),Your Vice is a Locked Door and Only I have the Key, All the Colours of the Dark (both 1972), and the international hit Torso (1973). Federica’s late uncle Luciano Martino showcased his brother’s work through the acclaimed distribution house Dania Films, which continues to be a prominent force in international exhibitions well into the 21st century.

As a media professional in her own right, Federica Martino is a director and screenwriter who graduated in 1995 from NYU Tisch School of The Arts. She has directed Beauty Queen Olivia (2002), her first feature film that granted her, among other prizes, The Best New Director Award at Brooklyn Film Festival and a TV production called L’ultima battuta for the TV series Crimini aired on Rai2. Federica is currently working on a number of horror film productions, which include plans to remake some of her father’s most iconic titles from a feminist perspective. Other productions that Federica is currently developing include Girl Hunt, which fuses backwoods horror motifs with a spate of real life honour killings that occurred in Southern Italy.

Federica Martino will be attending Cine-Excess XI as a contributor to the Communities on the Edge panel on Friday 10th November at 3.30pm and the Tales of Terror 2017 short competition on Friday 10th November at 5pm.

Sergio Martino remains one of Europe’s most iconic and inventive directors. Having worked in a variety of genres and capacities, Martino (along with his late producer/brother Luciano) came to public prominence in the 1970s, with a series of genre productions which reflected the contemporary aspirations and fears of the post-war Italian mind-set. With early documentary titles such as Mondo Sex (1969) and Naked and Violent (1970), Sergio

Cine-Excess XI Cine-Excess guest biographies

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Rich Matthews

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Martino effectively captured a changing nation’s perceptions of its own place within a cosmopolitan, international milieu. These titles also showcased a set of cinematographic skills that would be fine-tuned in his later fictionalised features. Here, Martino pioneered a series of stylish thrillers, saucy sexy comedies and no-nonsense tough cop dramas which all directly fed into wider Italian concerns of the era.

From fears of urban violence and the rise of Italian feminism, to more longstanding issues of rural Italian development, the cinema of Sergio Martino used genre imagery to examine the turbulent and changing Italian scene of the decade. For instance, between 1970 and 1974, he created a series of influential and often controversial gialli titles including The Case of the Scorpion’s Tail (1971), Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I have the Key, All the Colours of the Dark (both 1972) and Torso (1973), all of which fused psychosexual dynamics within wider examinations of the generational conflicts between the countercultural and conservative forces of the era. Beyond these titles, the director often fused sexual and social examinations with his contributions to the Italian tough cop cycle, with entries such as The Violent Professionals (1973) and Gambling City (1975) using the toxic terrorist context of the ‘leaden years’ to explore masculine anxieties. Throughout all of these cycles, Martino’s movies were marked by a strong sense of cinematography, editing and use of experimental colour techniques, which has proven influential to recent generations of international directors such as Quentin Tarantino and Eli Roth. Having previously honoured Sergio Martino with a Cine-Excess Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012, we are delighted to host his return visit to the festival in 2017.

Sergio Martino will be attending Cine-Excess XI to present a screening of Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key on Thursday 9th November at 7.30pm. He will also be participating in the the Tales of Terror 2017 short competition on Friday 10th November at 5pm.

Conrad Parke has been working in regeneration for the past 20 years. Before that he was a manufacturing engineer, youth worker and a social worker. The majority of his regeneration experience comes from working at a neighbourhood level either as a co-ordinator between different services or as a link between services and the community. In more recent years Conrad have been working for Sandwell MBC as a Regeneration & Partnerships manager leading on the three projects: a LEP funding programme for SME’s, the regeneration impact of the new Midland Metropolitan Hospital and USE-IT!, a European programme funded as part of UIA (Urban Innovation Action). Conrad Parke also works as a neighbourhood advisor for the National Lottery.

Conrad Parke will be attending Cine-Excess XI as a contributor to the Communities on the Edge panel on Friday 10th November at 3.30pm.

Denise Rose set up Mouth That Roars youth media organisation in 1998 to enable marganlised young people access to media resources and be the film producers of their own stories - or you can take

something from our site mouththatroars.com - prior to MTR Denise was (and still is) a youth worker and worked in various roles in mainstream media.

Denise Rose will be attending Cine-Excess XI as a contributor to the Communities on the Edge panel on Friday 10th November at 3.30pm.

Lara Ratnaraja is a freelance consultant specialising in ideas, innovation, leadership, collaboration, cultural policy implementation within the HE, cultural and digital sector. She develops and delivers projects and policy on how cultural and digital technology intersect for a number of national partners as well as programmes around leadership, resilience and business development for the arts and creative industries. She co-curates Hello Culture an ongoing series of events that explores how digital technologies and media are disrupting the way cultural and heritage organisations can produce, interact, create, curate content, transforming how audiences can connect and engage with cultural experiences (helloculture.co.uk). She is also a Consultant for Birmingham City University’s STEAMhouse programme developing research collaborations

Lara Ratnaraja will be attending Cine-Excess XI as a contributor to the Communities on the Edge panel on Friday 10th November at 3.30pm.

Gillian Youngs is currently Professor of Creative and Digital Economy and Head of Innovation and Impact in the Westminster School of Media, Arts and Design, University of Westminster. Gillian works on innovation at the intersections of the start-up and research sectors and is focusing increasingly on the investment sector as an integral element of the knowledge ecosystem. She has a background in media, communications consultancy, and research and academic leadership and has taught and undertaken research at universities in Europe, the USA and East Asia. She is one of the longest standing researchers in the UK on the impact of Internet developments on economy and society.

As an applied theorist, she is actively engaged in knowledge exchange and business and policy related processes, including through the Knowledge Transfer Network of the UK’s innovation agency, Innovate UK. Projects Gillian has recently led include: an ESRC research seminar series on Digital Policy and edited collection from the series titled Digital World: Connectivity, Creativity and Rights published by Routledge in 2013; the AHRC funded Brighton Fuse ‘Fusebox’ Knowledge Exchange project focused on the development of, and research on, a new start-up support programme for innovators at Wired Sussex in Brighton. She was also co-chair of the Design Commission inquiry ‘Designing the Digital Economy: Embedding Growth Through Design, Innovation and Technology’, which reported in May 2014. She has been engaged with Innovate UK’s Digital Catapult Centre since its launch and while Professor of Digital Economy at University of Brighton was academic lead for the ‘Internet of Place’ concept for the launch of the Digital Catapult Centre Brighton.

Gillian Youngs will be attending Cine-Excess XI as a contributor to the Communities on the Edge panel on Friday 10th November at 3.30pm.

Conrad Parke

Lara Ratnaraja

Gillian Youngs

Denise Rose(Mouth That Roars)

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Cine-Excess XIFear and the Unfamiliar: Wrong Time, Wrong Place, Wrong Crowd9th-11th November 2017

DAY 1: Birmingham City University, Margaret Street Campus - Thursday 9th November 201710am-11am Conference Registration and Coffee: Margaret Street Foyer, BCU

11am-11.30am CONFERENCE WELCOME (seminar room IPS)

11.30am-1.00pm PANEL 1 (Seminar room IPS)

CHAIR: JULIE RIPLEY

Deadlier than the Male- The Transgressive Female Other on and Off Screen 1. Begoña Gutiérrez Martínez (Independent scholar): Analysing Women in Film: The Dialectics of the Femme Fatale and the Masochist Male.2. Tamao Nakahara (Independent scholar) Wrong Women: Leveraging Cult Nostalgia to Re-write Transgression.3. Helen Gascoyne (Lincoln College): The Monstrous Regiment of Women.

1.00pm – 2.00pm LUNCH

2.00pm-3.30pm PANEL 2 (Seminar room IPS)

CHAIR: CALUM WADDELL

Global Visions of the Rural Other 1. Lee Broughton (Independent Scholar) The Vampires’ Night Orgy (1973): Reframing Folk Horror and the European Vampire Mythos on Screen 2. Jennifer Wallis (Queen Mary University of London): Figures in the Landscape: The 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


CHAIR: FRAN PHEASANT-KELLY

Film Ripped Open 2017 For the second year Cine-Excess is delighted to host the Film Ripped Open competition, which requires film students to complete the most compelling critique of a cult film classic, while a panel convene the dialogue and discuss winning entries.

5-6pm 5pm-6pm Cine-Excess XI Opening Night Reception

6.00pm - 7.30pmCine-Excess Screening 1 Still/Born (Brandon Christensen, Canada 2017)

7.30pm-12am Mondo Profondo Cult Concert (Birmingham and Midland Institute)

7.30pm - 9.00pm Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (Sergio Martino, Italy 1972) 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 20179.30am-10am Conference Registration and Coffee: Margaret Street Foyer, BCU

10.00am-11.45pm PANEL 4 (Seminar room IPS)

CHAIR: JENNIFER WALLIS

Sexual and Racial Visions of the Unfamiliar 1. Daniel Sheppard (University of East Anglia): AIDS and Other Killers: Queer Villainy in 1980s Slasher Cinema.2. Alex Fitch (University of Brighton): ‘Get Out! Nostalgia for Youth, Racial Superiority, and the Subjugated Zombie’. 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.

11.45am-12.00: Coffee

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DAY 3: Birmingham City University, Margaret Street Campus - Saturday 11th November 20179.30am-10am Conference Registration and Coffee: Margaret Street Foyer, BCU

10.00am-11.30am PANEL 7 (Seminar room IPS)

CHAIR: DAVID SWEENEY

Colonial and the Local: Transnational Visions of the Other 1. James Newton (Canterbury Christ Church University) Horrible Content/Horrible Form: Politics and the ‘Problem’ of the Women in Prison film.2. Erin Wiegand (Northumbria University) Savages and Social Justice Warriors: Eli Roth’s 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-1.30pmCine-Excess Screening 4

(Seminar room IPS)Incarnation (Filip Kovacevic, Serbia, 2017)

1.30pm-2.30pm Lunch


CHAIR: JAMES NEWTON

The Gothic Other – Cross Media Terrors, Old and New 1. David Sweeney (Glasgow School of Art): A Lost, Hazy Disquiet: Hookland, Scarfolk and the ‘Haunted Generation’. 2. Robert M. Francis (University of Wolverhampton): The Body Unheimlich3. 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.”

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5.00pm DELEGATES CONFERENCE MEAL (BOOKING REQUIRED)

6.30pm-8.00pm(The Mockingbird Cinema)Cine-Excess Screening 5

Freddy/Eddy (Tini Tüllmann, Germany, 2016)


Lou Simon’s 3 (Lou Simon, USA, 2017)UK Theatrical Premiere - with Skype Q and A from Director Lou Simon Warning – contains some scenes that some viewers may find disturbing


Sequence Break (Graham Skipper, Canada, 2017)

DAY 2: Birmingham City University, Margaret Street Campus - Friday 10th November 2017 continued

12.00-12.45pm CINE-EXCESS XI KEYNOTE

“Almost Psychopathic”: British Working Class Realism and the Horror Film in the late 1950s and early 1960s.Professor Mark Jancovich (University of East Anglia)

12.45pm-1.45pm Lunch

1.45pm-3.15pm PANEL 5(Seminar room IPS)CHAIR: ALEX FITCH

Auteur Visions: Wrong Time, Wrong Place, Wrong Crowd1. Tom Fallows (University of Exeter): Independent Dreams, American Nightmares: Industrial Transgression and Critical Organisation in the work of George A. Romero, 1978-1982.2. Julie Ripley (University of Falmouth): In With the Sin Crowd: Modernity as Marker of 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 Coffee4.00pm-5.00pm

THE CINE-EXCESS 2017 INDUSTRY PANEL

Communities on the Edge Chaired by Professor Gillian Youngs (University of WestmInster)

5.00pm-6.00pm PANEL 6(Seminar room IPS)

CHAIR: EUGENIO TRIANA

Tales of Terror 2017For the second year Cine-Excess is delighted to host the Tales of Terror short film competition, which this year will feature Guest of Honour Sergio Martino and a panel of experts discussing competition entries in relation to this year’s theme of Wrong Time, Wrong Place, Wrong Crowd.

7.00pm-8.00pmCine-Excess Screening 2

(Seminar room IPS)

Beset by Demons (Kim Henkel/Brian Huberman, USA, 2017) UK Theatrical Premiere – with Skype Q and A from Kim Henkel and Brian Huberman

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Cine-Excess XIScreening 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 November 2017

International Project Space Birmingham City University, Margaret Street Campus

Still/BornBrandon Christensen, Canada, 20176.00PMCert 18 (TBC)

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

Thursday 9th November 2017 Birmingham and Midland Institute

Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the KeySergio Martino, Italy, 19727.30PMCert 18

Introduced by director Sergio Martino himself, this cult adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Black Cat showcases the Italian filmmaker’s interests in narrative and stylistic complexity to good effect. The film focuses on the crumbling relationship between a destructive writer and his unstable wife, whose marital tensions boil over when a series of grisly murders taking place in the locality

Profondo Mondo and Agents of Evolution do Cult Italian Grooves9.00PM onwards

Playing 9pm until late, musical cult aficionados the Agents of Evolution provide a musical tour through the most iconic sights and sounds of Italian trash cinema.

Friday 10th November 2017

International Project Space Birmingham City University, Margaret Street CampusBeset by DemonsKim Henkel/Brian Huberman, USA, 20177.00PMCert 18 (TBC)

UK Theatrical Premiere - with Skype Q and A from Kim Henkel and Brian Huberman

Having previously defined the modern face of the marginal rural other with The Texas Chain Saw Massacre in 1974, screenwriter Kim Henkel returns to his chain saw legacy in a compelling new documentary. This new project sees him working with realist filmmaker Brian Huberman to document the life and brutal murder of the cult actor Lou Perryman (The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 2). Probing both the dark family ties that motivated Perryman’s subsequent roles, as well as the events that led to his untimely demise, Beset by Demons is a must see real life expose for chain saw and true crime fans alike.

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Friday 10th November 2017


Camera ObscuraAaron B Koontz,USA, 20178.00PMCert 18 (TBC)

UK Theatrical Premiere - with Skype Q and A from Director Aaron B. Koontz

Jack Zeller is an intelligent, solitary man who continues to struggle with events he witnessed as a war photographer. He receives a strange camera as an anniversary gift. As he develops the film, Jack realizes that the images show imminent deaths in the locations he has photographed.

Warning – contains scenes that some viewers may find disturbing

Saturday 11th November 2017


IncarnationFilip Kovacevic, Serbia, 201712.00PMCert 18 (TBC)

The need to find answers to a perplexing life is a central theme to this Serbian thriller about an amnesiac man who tries to recover his identity and find out who’s trying to kill him.

Saturday 11th November 2017 The Mockingbird Cinema

Freddy/EddyTini Tüllmann, Germany, 20167.30PMCert 18 (TBC)

Freddy finds himself in the biggest crisis of his life after being accused of attacking his wife. While his world collapses, Eddy, his childhood imaginary friend reappears, with devastating results.

Lou Simon’s 3Lou Simon,USA, 20178.00PMCert 18 (TBC)

UK Theatrical Premiere - with Skype Q and A from Director Lou Simon

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

Warning – contains scenes that some viewers may find disturbing

Sequence Break Graham Skipper, Canada, 201710.00PMCert 18 (TBC)

In the tradition of David Cronenberg and body horror cinema, Sequence Break is a surreal sci-fi romance, wherein a beautiful young woman and strange metaphysical forces threaten the reality of a reclusive video arcade technician, resulting in bizarre biomechanical transformations.

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Map and venue information

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BMI 9 Margaret St,

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Cine-Excess XI Credits and Thanks

Cine-Excess XI Are:

Xavier MendikDirector of Cine-Excess [email protected]

Robert Anderson Associate Director of Cine-Excess XI

[email protected]

Fran Pheasant-KellyCo-Director of Cine-Excess [email protected]

Robert McLaughlinCo-Director of Cine-Excess [email protected]

Robert SharlCo-Director of Cine-Excess XI

[email protected]

Eugenio Triana Co-Director of Cine-Excess XI

[email protected]

Paul SmithCo-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

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