[ecrea] Cine Excess: European Erotic Cinema

Cine-Excess VII: European Erotic Cinema: Identity Desire and Disgust

mac birmingham, 15-17 November 2013



Full programme announced:



* Special guests: directors Catherine Breillat & Francesco Barilli to 
attend Cine-Excess VII
* Six screenings including four UK premieres
* Industry panel featuring American and European film producers and 
directors alongside regional film agency representatives
* Networking panels on ‘research funding for cult film’, ‘PG networking 
in cult film’ and ‘programming cult and extreme cinema’
* Over 35 academic papers from international scholars





Now in its seventh year, the world's leading cult film conference and 
festival comes to Birmingham for the first time, courtesy of B-Film: the 
Birmingham Centre for Film Studies, the University of Birmingham and the 
University of Brighton. Staged at Birmingham's premiere arts venue, mac 
birmingham, this three day event combines an academic conference with 
industry-based panels and workshops, UK theatrical premieres of new and 
classic films.



This year's theme is 'European Erotic Cinema' and its special guests are 
the controversial and acclaimed French filmmaker Catherine Breillat 
(Romance, Fat Girl, Anatomy of Hell) and arthouse actor turned cult 
Italian auteur Francesco Barilli (The Perfume of the Lady in Black, 
Pensione paura), both of whom will receive Cine-Excess lifetime 
achievement awards at the event.



Key features of this year's event are:



Echoes of Excess: Cult Film Creation, Financing and the New Digital Economy
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Mac Birmingham, Cine-Excess is 
hosting this special public industry panel which brings together 
international film producers, directors and regional film agency 
representatives to discuss how the new digital economy and current 
remake trends are helping aspiring filmmakers looking to make an impact 
in the low budget cult film arena. Guests appearing on this special 
panel include Italian director Federica Martino, producer Meg Thomson 
(Eccho Remakes), Prof. Roger Shannon (Edge Hill University), Daniel 
Lawson (Creative Skillset) and Prof. Gillian Youngs (University of 
Brighton).



Dark Desires, Dark Obsessions: Dark Romance

Running throughout the event, Cine-Excess VII presents Dark Romance, a 
series of UK theatrical premieres and exclusive screenings with special 
guests of new and classic films dealing with the dark side of eroticism:



Friday 15th November 7pm
Pensione paura / Hotel Fear (1977, Italy, Francesco Barilli) UK 
theatrical premiere
+ Il cavaliere errante (2012) UK theatrical premiere + on-stage Q&A with 
Francesco Barilli

Friday 15th November 10pm
Tulpa (2012, Italy, Federico Zampaglione) UK theatrical premiere of a 
new sex and sin edit of the film

Saturday 16th November 6pm
Rouge sang / The Storm Within (2012, Canada, Martin Doepner) UK 
theatrical premiere

Saturday 16th November 8pm
Catherine Breillat retrospective screening (title tbc) + on-stage Q&A 
with Catherine Breillat

Sunday 17th November 6pm
Para Elisa / For Elisa (2013, Spain, Juanra Fernández)

Sunday 17th November 8pm
Siren (2013, USA, Jesse Peyronel) UK theatrical premiere



Conference: European Erotic Excess: Identity, Desire and Disgust
Running across the daytime slots of 15-17th November, the Cine-Excess 
VII conference features over 35 talks from international critics and 
scholars who will be considering the subject of European Erotic Excess.

>From mainstream cinema’s first nude scene in Ekstase (1933) and the 
extreme arthouse imagery of Romance (1999) via the exploitation films of 
Joe D’Amato and Jess Franco, Europe has always been at the cutting edge 
of cinematic depictions of the erotic, pushing the boundaries of what it 
is legitimate to represent on screen. Employing varied genres and 
filmmaking modes – from the pseudo-educational sex films of Scandinavia 
and Germany to the surrealist exploits of Walerian Borowczyk or the arty 
bourgeois respectability of Emmanuelle (1974) – European cinema has 
shifted the paradigms through which the (eroticised) body can be 
represented and consumed, blurring and problematizing the boundaries 
between ‘art’ and ‘exploitation’. Often these celluloid sexual 
experimentations also traverse accepted boundaries of desire and 
disgust, with unsettling and controversial results. In so doing, these 
films prompt a profound re-mapping of the body, as well as of the 
concepts of art, commerce and even the very notion of ‘European’.

The daytime conference ‘European Erotic Excess: Identity, Desire and 
Disgust’ is open to the public and also features a number of networking 
panels on ‘research funding for cult film’, ‘PG networking in cult film’ 
and ‘programming cult and extreme cinema’.



For further details on Cine-Excess VII including a full conference 
schedule, see www.cine-excess.co.uk


How to Book for Cine Excess VII

Delegate passes include entrance to all papers, panels, films and 
interviews and are available for one-day or for the full three-days 
(lunch provided on the Saturday and Sunday slots as part of the package).
One day pass: £80 (£50 concessions)
Three day pass: £150 (£90 concessions)

Tickets for individual films are available for £7 (£5 concessions)

The ‘Echoes of Excess’ industry panel is free and open to the general 
public (over 18), but booking is essential.

Tickets for all these events are available from 
www.macarts.co.uk/event/cine-excess-vii or by calling the box-office on 
0121 446 3232.

For More Information

For more information on the event, please contact Alex Marlow-Mann 
((a.p.marlowmann /at/ bham.ac.uk)) or Xavier Mendik ((x.mendik /at/ brighton.ac.uk))



Dr. Alex Marlow-Mann

Lecturer in European Film/ Acting Director of B-Film: Birmingham Centre 
for Film Studies

School of Languages, Cultures, Art History and Music

Ashley Building

The University of Birmingham

Birmingham

B15 2TT



Tel: **44 (0)121-4148597

(a.p.marlowmann /at/ bham.ac.uk)

http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/historyofart/marlow-mann-alex.aspx


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