Future Films
Here are the exciting projects we are working on. Please check back with us - more details and images will be added as each project takes shape.
HAUSU (HOUSE) [1977] directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi
Friday, Sept. 24
9:15 PM
Location: TBA
Admission: TBA
Presented by The Light Factory and the Charlotte Film Festival, HOUSE is a hallucinatory head trip about a schoolgirl who travels with six classmates to her ailing aunt’s creaky country home, only to come face to face with evil spirits, bloodthirsty pianos, and a demonic housecat. 87 min. Not rated, but does contain nudity and violence. Japanese with English Subtitles
HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH (2001) directed by John Cameron Mitchell
Monday, Sept. 27
Doors open at 7:30 PM; movie begins at 8 PM
Actor’s Theatre (650 E Stonewall St. Charlotte, NC 28202)
Admission: Free and so is the popcorn; cash bar
Cult Movie Mondays presented by The Light Factory and Theatre 650, HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH (2001) is an anatomically incorrect rock odyssey. Hedwig, born a boy named Hansel in East Berlin, fell in love with an American G.I. and underwent a sex-change operation in order to marry him and flee to the West. Years later, Hedwig is leading her rock band on a tour of the U.S., telling her life story through a series of concerts at Bilgewater Inn seafood restaurants. Her tour dates coincide with those of arena-rock star Tommy Gnosis, a wide-eyed boy who once loved Hedwig... but then left with all her songs. 95 min. Rated R for sexual content and language.
Manhattan Short Film Festival
Thursday, September 30
7pm
Knight Gallery
Admission: $5 members $7 non-members
An extraordinary global event will take place the week of September 26 to October 3, when over 100,000 people in over 200 cities across six continents gather in Cinemas, Galleries, Museums and Cafes for one purpose...to view and vote on the Finalists’ Films in the Annual MANHATTAN SHORT Film Festival. Past finalists have proceeded to win Oscars in the short film category. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to get a glimpse of the future filmmakers and storytellers of tomorrow. The Light Factory is the only North Carolina screening site!
For more on the festival and the selection process: www.msfilmfest.com.
Wunderkinder: New German Cinema coming October 2010
In October 2010, The Light Factory will hold a retrospective dedicated to the uniquely heterogeneous group of auteurs of the New German Cinema. These directors were not bound by style or content, but rather by the desire to create a new cinematic discourse. The intent of the retrospective is to educate the regional community of the role of this movement on the medium of film and about the work of the filmmakers who challenged traditional film dogma and on a socio-political level reflected the social reality and historical past of Germany.
The Light Factory retrospective will include the screening of the most prominent films from the New German Cinema over the course of a week. The week of activities will feature discussions with professors, historians, and film critiques on what these films meant then and what we can glean from them now.
