After emerging with her 2001 feature debut, Lovely Rita, Austrian filmmaker Jessica Hausner has rapidly established herself as a tirelessly inventive director who reconfigures genre codes in clever and provocative ways.
Her new release Little Joe is a clinically stylised and emotionally austere sci-fi. Labelled “a Body Snatchers for the age of antidepressants” by Rolling Stone, it follows the disturbing power of manufactured plants, originally intended to make people happy. To celebrate its release we’re also screening Lovely Rita and a couple of rarely screened shorts: coming-of-age tale and winner of the Lion of Tomorrow prize at Locarno Film Festival, Flora; and mid-length film Inter-view, where the story of a student who conducts interviews with strangers on the street, is intercut with that of a young woman who sets about changing her life.
Enjoy our special programme to celebrate this rare talent in film making.
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Lovely Rita
Hausner probes the uncanny banality of suburban malaise through the eyes of Rita, a teen girl riding sinister currents of adolescent anger and disillusionment.
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Little Joe
The English language debut from Austrian director Jessica Hausner is clinically stylised and emotionally austere, echoing The Day of the Triffids and Invasion of the…
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Jessica Hausner Shorts
HOME presents two rarely screened titles: Hausner’s Locarno Festival–winning short Flora and the mid-length Inter-View, Hausner’s graduation film at the Filmacademy Vienna. Both screen from…