Cine Excess Cult Film Conference

STOP PRESS: John Landis, Stuart Gordon and Brian Yuzna are now confirmed to attend the conference and SCI-FI-LONDON film festival.

To celebrate the launch of the world’s first MA programme in Cult Film and TV, the Cult Film Archive at Brunel University and SCI-FI-LONDON will be hosting an international conference dissecting and re-evaluating some of the biggest trends, icons, auteurs and periods of global cult film production. Presented across a number of key strands, the conference will supplement discussion papers and plenary sessions with screenings and talks by leading cult filmmakers.

Over the last decade there has been an explosion of critical interest around the global traditions, traits and themes of cult film. Whether defined by horror, kung-fu, sci-fi, sexploitation, blaxploitation, kitsch musical or ‘weird world cinema’, cult film has moved from the margins to the mainstream of critical respectability.

‘Cult’ is a contemporary media buzz-word and cult status has become something that many filmmakers aspire to. Cine-Excess aims to bring together the people with the power to elevate a film to cultdom. Filmmakers, distributors and exhibitors will confront critics and fans at this unique event, which will feature both academic papers and roundtable discussions by key film industry figures. Delegates will also get the chance to watch the UK premieres of some exciting new cult films.

Confirmed Keynote Speakers include Professor Martin Barker from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, an expert on cult audiences; Dr Matt Hills from the University of Cardiff, who is currently writing books on BLADE RUNNER and DOCTOR WHO and Professor Mark Jancovich from the University of East Anglia, a specialist on the American horror film and editor of the book Defining Cult Movies. Other speakers at Cine-Excess include: Mark Bould, Brigid Cherry, Mark Goodall, Robin Griffiths, I.Q. Hunter, Leon Hunt, Peter Hutchings, Geoff King, David Lavery, Ernest Mathijs, Tamao Nakahara, Julian Petley and Andy Willis.

With global filmmakers JOHN LANDIS and STUART GORDON scheduled to appear at the event, Cine-Excess will appeal to the film researcher and film fan alike. Whatever aspect of cult interests you; whether you make cult films, study them or just love them, Cine-Excess will inspire and inform.

Cine-Excess presents over forty-five talks and panel discussions on a wide range of global cult topics including:

• The films of Roger Corman
• Female fans of the EVIL DEAD
• Mondo movies
• The films of Dario Argento
• The reception of BATTLE ROYALE
• The cult of DONNIE DARKO
• Turkish trash cinema
• 70s British exploitation
• Latin American cult movies
• The films of John Holmes
• Nigerian horror films
• Audiences for Tarantino’s cinema
• Japanese sex flicks
• The cult persona of Peter Lorre
• THE LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN
• New Brit horror cinema
• Medieval sex movies
• The British censorship of violent cult material

To find out more and book your place visit www.cine-excess.com