Antonio Viego, Markos Hadjioannou
Type: Lab
The BrainCultures Lab in collaboration with Screen/Society presented a series of films that explored the plural lives of the brain as a socially and culturally constituted object.
The Headless Woman (La mujer sin cabeza)
September 27, 2019
Martel’s extraordinary third film gets inside the head of a successful middle-aged dentist who might have accidentally run over a child...or a dog...or nothing at all. The masterful film - shades of Hitchcock’s Vertigo - continues Martel’s explorations into the hypocrisies of Argentina’s bourgeoisie.
The film was introduced by BrainCultures Lab Co-Director Antonio Viego (Associate Professor of Literature).
(Lucrecia Martel, 2008, 87 min, Argentina, Spanish w/ English subtitles, Color, DCP)
Mulholland Drive
November 14, 2019
Bright-eyed aspiring actress Betty (Naomi Watts) arrives in LA with dreams of stardom, but soon finds herself sucked into the nightmarish underbelly of Hollywood’s Dream Factory as she becomes entangled with an amnesiac femme fatale (Laura Harring). Hitchcockian doubles, illusory identities, and surreal slips into the dark and disturbing abound in David Lynch’s neo-noir masterpiece.
The film was introduced by BrainCultures Lab Co-Director Markos Hadjioannou (Associate Professor of Literature).
(David Lynch, 2001, 147 min, USA, Color, 35mm)
- Best Film of the Decade, Film Comment
- Best Film of the 21st Century, BBC
Fear Of Fear (Angst vor der Angst)
February 20, 2020
A woman in a stable but passionless marriage begins to lose her mind when she becomes pregnant with her second child. Liquor, valium, and music prove cold comfort in a ruthless, alienating world. A made-for-tv melodrama only Fassbinder could conceive.
The film was introduced by BrainCultures Lab Co-Director Markos Hadjioannou (Associate Professor of Literature).
(Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1975, 88 min, Germany, German w/ subtitles, Color, Digital)