Cinelogue is a Depot-based film strand centering on the screening and discussion of cult and alternative cinema, curated by a collective of programmers composed of Depot staff and other local creatives.
Since 2021, Cinelogue has been bringing offbeat and underappreciated cinema to audiences accompanied by short films, DJ sets and introductions from academics, filmmakers and historians, and has enjoyed giving cinemagoers opportunities to see rarely screened films and old favourites on the big screen with additional material that aims to start conversations both in person and online.
Keep up to date with Cinelogue through an upcoming screening, or their blog, which can be found here.
Screenings
Crash (1996)
Tuesday 15 April, 20:15
Based on J.G. Ballard’s novel of the same name and directed by Canadian genre stalwart David Cronenberg, Crash follows a TV director from his involvement in a life-altering car accident to his descent into an shady subculture of road accident victims who can only achieve sexual arousal with the help of cars – and their ‘raw sexual energy’.
Infamous both now and at the time of release, Crash has always divided viewers, never more publicly than when it won the Special Jury Prize at Cannes, an award that jury president Frances Ford Coppola refused to present to Cronenberg.
Previous screenings
Goodbye Dragon Inn (2003)
Wednesday 12 March, 18:00
A celebration of the cinema as a place of worship, reflection and silent kinship, Goodbye, Dragon Inn is director Tsai Ming-liang’s love letter to the movies.
At an old Taipei cinema about to close its doors for good, we are treated to the stories of the few people left sitting in a screening of King Hu’s Dragon Inn; from the usher with a steamed bun and the projectionist who it’s meant for, to the actor in the audience and the lonely tourist just behind him.
The Hunger (1983)
Saturday 2 November 2024, 18:00. Followed by a DJ set from The Flex
John is the lover of the gorgeous immortal vampire Miriam, and he’s been led to believe that he’ll live forever, too. Unfortunately, he quickly deteriorates into a horrible living death, and Miriam seeks a new companion.
Nowhere (1997)
Wednesday 2 October 2024, 20:30
Speeding back from 1997 in all its sun-soaked glory, Cinelogue returns with Gregg Araki’s newly restored NOWHERE, a journey along the hedonistic, drug-tinged, shoegaze-soundtracked path to ‘the greatest party of the year’, where a group of teenagers encounter acid trips, bisexuality, violence and a giant bipedal lizard.
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
Monday 15 April 2024, 20:15
Introduced by Dr Charlie Boddicker, who will discuss Nietzschean themes in the film and the work of Yukio Mishima
This visually stunning, collagelike portrait of acclaimed Japanese author and playwright Yukio Mishima investigates the inner turmoil and contradictions of a man who attempted an impossible harmony between self, art, and society.
Taking place on Mishima’s last day, when he famously committed public seppuku, the film is punctuated by extended flashbacks to the writer’s life as well as by gloriously stylised evocations of his fictional works.
Ghost Stories for Christmas
Friday 15 December 2023, 20:15
Introduced by Frank Gray, early film historian and now retired director of Screen Archive South East
Broadcast in the dying hours of Christmas Eve, the BBC’s A Ghost Story for Christmas series was a fixture of the seasonal schedules throughout the 1970s and spawned a long tradition of chilling tales, which terrified yuletide viewers for decades to come.
We will be screening two of the best instalments of this classic series: A Warning To The Curious (1972) and The Signalman (1976).
Stop Making Sense
Friday 29 September 2023, 18:15
Followed by a DJ set from The Flex
The greatest concert film of all time, Stop Making Sense brings to the screen Talking Heads at Hollywood’s Pantages Theater in December 1983, alongside an ecstatic ensemble of supporting musicians.
Renowned filmmaker Jonathan Demme (Silence of the Lambs) captures the band at their exhilarating best, in this new and complete restoration for the film’s 40th anniversary.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
Saturday 12 August 2023, 20:30
With intro by Dr Miranda Corcoran
When Sally hears that her grandfather’s grave may have been vandalized, she and her paraplegic brother, Franklin, set out with their friends to investigate. After a detour to their family’s old farmhouse, they discover a group of crazed, murderous outcasts living next door.
The Watermelon Woman (1996)
Tuesday 11 July 2023, 18:00
Includes a 10 minute short – Skeletal Behaviours by Stella Jordan
‘The Watermelon Woman’ was the name given to the mythical Fae Richards, a beautiful yet elusive black Actress from the 1930’s. In all her films, it was her only billing, why should that be?
It is a mystery that perplexes Cheryl, a young black film maker. She sets out to solve the mystery by making a documentary about this forgotten star.
A Zed & Two Noughts (1985)
Tuesday 7 February 2023, 17:45
Twin zoologists, grieving the death of their wives in a collision involving a car and a swan, gradually form a bond with the woman who was driving the vehicle that caused their spouses’ demise.
The brothers become obsessed with death and decay in animals, creating time-lapse films to further their understanding.
Häxan (1922)
Sunday 16 October 2022, 15:30
Grave robbing, torture, possessed nuns, and a satanic Sabbath: Benjamin Christensen’s legendary silent film uses a series of dramatic vignettes to explore the scientific hypothesis that the witches of the Middle Ages and early modern era suffered from the same ills as psychiatric patients diagnosed with hysteria in the film’s own time.
Araya (1959)
Sunday 25 September 2022, 14:00
The peninsula of Araya in Venezuela is one of the most arid places on earth. Since its discovery by the Spanish 500 years ago, the region’s salt has been exploited manually. Three stories underline the harsh life of this region, all of which vanished with the arrival of industrial exploitation. The film has been hailed as a masterpiece of poetic cinema and a forerunner of feminist Latina cinema.
Adaptation (2002)
Sunday 3 April 2022, 14:00
Nicolas Cage is Charlie Kaufman, a confused L.A. screenwriter overwhelmed by feelings of inadequacy, sexual frustration, self-loathing, and by the screenwriting ambitions of his freeloading twin brother Donald (Nicolas Cage). While struggling to adapt “The Orchid Thief,” by Susan Orlean (Meryl Streep), Kaufman’s life spins from pathetic to bizarre.
In The Mood For Love (2000)
Sunday 29 August 2021, 17:00
Journalist Chow Mo-wan and his wife move into a Hong Kong apartment, but Chow’s spouse is often away on business. Before long, the lonely Chow makes the acquaintance of the alluring Su Li-zhen. As the two friends realize their partners are cheating on them, they begin to fall for one another; however, neither wants to stoop to the level of the unfaithful spouses.
With live intro from Dr Victor Fan, Reader In Film And Media Philosophy at Kings College.
Paris, Texas (1984)
Sunday 25 July 2021, 14:00
A disheveled man, Travis Henderson (who has been missing for years), wanders out of the desert and seems to have no idea who he is. When a stranger manages to contact his brother, Walt, Travis is awkwardly reunited with his sibling. His presence unsettles Walt and his family, which also includes Travis’s own son. Soon, Travis must try to put his life back together.
Hausu (1977)
Sunday 2 May 2021, 18:30
A schoolgirl, distressed by her widowed father’s plans to remarry, sets off with her friends for a summer getaway in her aunt’s isolated mansion. But in this house of secrets, emotional traumas have terrifyingly physical embodiments, and the girls will have to use all their individual talents if any are to survive. Iconic Japanese comedy horror directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi
Irma Vep
Sunday 7 March 2021, 18:30
A French filmmaker (Jean-Pierre Léaud) is commissioned by a TV company to direct a remake of a classic silent-era serial, Les Vampires. Maggie Cheung (playing a version of herself) is cast in as the lead and heads to Paris for filming, where she finds herself amid the chaos that makes up a film set