DRILLER KILLER E2
Halloween Weekend
Special
Private
View: From 1pm, Film starts 2pm Saturday 29th October
Exhibition: 29 October – 12 November
DRILLER
KILLER E2 is film premiere and exhibition homage to Abel Ferrara’s 1979 video
nasty 'Driller Killer'. It seems appropriate to be hosting this
exhibition/screening right now, the remake is ever abundant and like a remake
of history the Tory party are back in the driving seat. David Cameron sits on
his moral high horse declaring that the nation is broken and that society is
sick. Moral codes and family values are again being drilled home. It was the
early 1980’s and a similar scenario that resulted in the Video Recordings Act
1984. Like the cuts to the arts and humanities, education and the tripling of tuition
fees, creativity is under threat. Censorship is back but in a more devastating
form.
Showcasing
6 artists for the first time together, David Burrows, Dean Kenning, Elizabeth
McAlpine, Simon Ould, Liam Scully and Vanessa Scully make work in response to
the film that helped bring about the 1984 Video Recording Act. In a Shoreditch basement each artist will
bring their unique approach to the video nasty, whether it is the kinetic
abominations of Dean Kenning or the low-fi offerings of Simon Ould, a mix of
the comic and the macabre will both repel and delight.
A matinee
film screening of Abel Ferrara’s ‘Driller Killer’ + Vanessa Scully’s ‘Driller
Killer E2’ + surprise video nasty trailers by artists working with film.
Tickets for the screening are £7.50 per person, £15 for the sofas, and £20 for
the deluxe sofa, all come with complimentary Bloody Mary. Tickets available through Aubin Cinema.
