The start of a series of Club Filmosophy nights at Roxy from Daniel Frampton in association with Tartan Video

Starts 7:30pm

Free entry

Club Filmosophy is an evening dedicated to revealing the thinking behind great filmmaking. Led by Daniel Frampton, the night begins with a short introduction to filmosophy, followed by some comments about the film, with our host offering some ways to understand its formal design/thinking. The film will then be screened, and afterwards the audience are invited to take part in a free flowing discussion. 

Tonight:

Europa (Lars Von Trier 91)

"Before Lars von Trier went all cinematically prudish with his Dogme rules he was quite the masturbator of the silver screen, using sumptuous photography, unusual colourings, and sweeping camera movements -- he would even play Wagner at high volume during shooting to get his actors in the right mood.

Europa was his grand masterpiece, and stunned audiences around the world when it was released. In the film a young American of German parentage arrives in Germany at the end of the war to work on his uncle's railway, and is confronted by still active Nazi partisans. With incredible 'Scope photography supervised by Henning Bendtsen, Europa takes the audience on a hypnotic journey both backwards and forwards in the history of cinema's styles. Von Trier cinematically thinks the innocence of our hero, Leo Kessler (Jean-Marc Barr), colouring moments of psychological impression, editing his movements like a dream, and using up to seven layers of images to relight the thinking of cinema. "I have made a film that I would be afraid to see", said von Trier at the time, "no trick is too crass, no method too cheap, no effect too vulgar for this film".

Daniel Frampton is the founding editor of the salon-journal Film-Philosophy (est. 1996), and the author of Filmosophy (Wallflower Press, 2006).