A Series of More-Than-Human Encounters

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Date:

20 Oct 2021 - 19:30

Place:

Cinema RITCS, Antoine Dansaertstraat 70, 1000 Brussel.

Language:

English

Part of Project:

A Series of More-Than-Human Encounters

Chair History and Philosophy of Sciences

Philip Kaufman's Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

Philip Kaufman's Invasion of the Body Snatchers, the second Hollywood adaptation of Jack Finney's famous serialized Sci-fi/horrornovel, The Body Snatchers, was released in 1978.
A species of gelatinous creatures, having abandoned their dying planet and traveled to Earth, land in San Francisco. They infiltrate Earth's ecosystem, latching onto plant life. Soon, people are being replaced by emotionless replicas, using the plants that get them when they sleep.

PROGRAM

Duration: 155 min
The film will be introduced by Gosie Vervloessem.

TICKETS

5 euro (full price) 3 euro (reduction price)

This screening is part of 'A Series of More-than-Human Encounters', a program by Crosstalks and Kaaitheater focusing on encounters between humans and non-humans. In collaboration with Cinema RITCS.

More-Than-Human during Corona

From Monday 18/10 onwards Cinema RITCS is obliged to ask for the Covid Safe Ticket (CST) at the reception of the cinema. This means that they expect you to have a valid CST and to have your identity card at hand to check the validity of your CST. Once a green screen appears, you will be admitted to the cinema. You may then remove your mouth mask. In other words, you are not obliged to wear the mask. If you prefer to keep your mask on, you are of course free to do so.You can sit wherever you want, there will no longer be any restrictions, nor will any seats have to be kept free between different groups.

With the CST you will be able to enjoy a cinema experience as before the pandemic.

Gosie Vervloessem’s artistic research focuses on the position of the researcher in times of multiple crises. Her work faces the challenges that arise within this role, and looks for new ways of producing knowledge. Her practice is an ongoing quest on finding tools to relate to a world that is messy and chaotic. Therefore she juggles with and re-interprets the practices of cooking, digesting, co-digesting, immersion or osmosis, as tools to literally embody that relation. [Immersion or osmosis in comparison with digestion covers more holes than the mouth and anus and therefore it seems a richer concept.] Her work focuses mainly on the concept of nature and unravelling the ideas that underpin this concept. In doing that, she identifies herself as a Sick Detective, a character that involves the vegetal kingdom as a possible ally in her research. Her work is highly inspired by plant biology, comic books, and horror movies. It is mainly presented as lecture-performance, in the form of workshops or publications.

Director and screenwriter Philip Kaufman won the Prix de la Nouvelle Critique at Cannes in 1965 for his film Goldstein (1964). He was the screenwriter for The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976). Kaufman's first hit as director was Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978). Kaufman was also nominated for an Oscar for Best Screenplay for The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988).

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