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Next week, 13-17 November 2024, Night Visions has finally released the party crowd from its torment and revealed its worthy guest.
in Helsinki 13.-17.11. guests from ten films and four different countries arrive at Night Visions: the United States, Great Britain, Italy and Turkey.
The official announcement explains as follows:
The most experienced of the authors is the director and screenwriter Luigi Cozzi (b. 1947), who is particularly focused on science fiction and fantasy subjects. Italian Cozzi has worked with, among others, Oscar winner Christopher Plummer, David Hasselhoff, Klaus Kinski, Bond star Caroline Munro and Arnold Schwarzenegger’s rival Lou Ferrigno during his career spanning seven decades. Cozzi, who started collaborating with European horror film icon Dario Argento already in the 1970s, from his own directions, the festival will now show four films: the space opera Starcrash (1978), which was created in the wake of the first Star Wars (1977), Contamination (1980), an adaptation of Ridley Scott’s Alien (1979), Conan – the Barbarian (1982) inspired by the success of Hercules (1983) and the psychedelic horror trip The Black Cat (1989) honoring collaborator Argento.
Jim Hosking, who arrives in Helsinki from Britain, is one of the most independent creators of the English-language independent film of the current millennium. Hosking, who named Aki Kaurismäki and David Lynch as his main inspirations, made his international breakthrough with his first feature-length directorial venture, including The Greasy Strangler (2016), which has been compared to John Waters’ early productions. Actor Elijah Wood, who has been part of the virtuoso’s background since his first film, also smelled the value of Hosking’s artistic uncompromisingness early on. Hosking presents the Night Visions audience with his third feature-length directorial venture, Ebony and Ivory, a surreal comedy about Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder’s first meeting, which will now have its European premiere in Helsinki.
Director Justin Hardy (b. 1964) and producer Chris Nunn (b. 1988), who bring their brand-new documentary Children of The Wicker Man to the festival, also arrive from the British Isles. Hardy, who started his film career in the 1980s, has won several RTS awards from the Royal Television Society in his home country with his TV productions and has also been noticed with Emmy award nominations. Nunn is not only a film producer, but also an assistant professor of Cinematography at the Russell Group University in Birmingham. In addition to their deeply personal documentary, the duo will present the Night Visions audience with its subject, Justin Hardy’s late father Robin Hardy’s pagan horror classic The Wicker Man (UK 1973), of which a 4K restored 50th anniversary version will be screened at the festival.
Can Evrenol (b. 1982), the most internationally praised contemporary creator of Turkish genre cinema, is traveling to Helsinki with his latest directorial venture, Sayara. Evrenol, who made his international breakthrough with his surrealist horror thriller Baskin (2015) and achieved considerable international festival presence with his second feature film, the Dario Argento- and HP Lovecraft-influenced Housewife (2017), now takes a step in the direction of a more realistic narrative: charged with female energy and martial arts action, Sayara is hard-hitting a revenge story that expresses the social grievances of the director’s home country with rare frankness.
Scooter McCrae, who arrives in Helsinki from the United States, brings with him his third long directorial venture, Black Eyed Susan, a complex and multi-level morality play. The provocation, which criticizes artificial intelligence hype, shot on 16-inch film, looks like an American independent film from the late 1970s and is compared in its harshness to the productions of Gaspar Noé, the raunchy spirit of Euro cinema. McCrae, who became the talk of the underground with his daring genre film experiments of the 1990s Shatter Dead (1994) and Sixteen Tongues (1999), has already made a record of declaring Black Eyed Susan as his last feature film.
Longer guest introductions on the festival website.
Individual tickets for all festival screenings are on sale in Finnkino’s online store and in all Finnkino theaters. Light series tickets from all Finnkino theaters, other series tickets only from Helsinki cinema Kinopalatsi.
Source: muropaketti.com
