CHANGE OF VENUE: The Last Days of Humanity

Please note the venue of this event:

During the CCA’s closure, we are partnering with GMAC Film
Map: 5th Floor, 103 Trongate, Glasgow G1 5HD
Website: https://www.gmacfilm.com/

The Last Days of Humanity
(2022, 200 min)

For our first screening of the year, we are proud to present the UK Premiere of ‘The Last Days of Humanity’, inspired by the 1918 epic anti-war play by Karl Kraus. Writer, film critic and programmer, Kieron Corless will join us to introduce the film IRL. He writes:

‘The mood is set in an extended opening passage, overture to the tumultuous symphony to follow – film clips of violent volcanic eruptions, characters cowed and defensive, ubiquitous menace and lamentation. Somewhere in the midst of this archival drama the director pesters his unwilling young child with his home-movie camera.

Cinema, the world, the refuge of familial love, woven together in a spellbinding mosaic montage of cinephilic erudition and abrasive political commentary by distinguished veteran curator and critic Enrico Ghezzi (together with Alessandro Gagliardo), best known for his uncompromising, highly influential programming, across decades, of the more modernist strains of auteur cinema on Italian TV.

But whither that cinema now? And which are the fragments to shore against our ruin?’

Inclinations

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