Join director Joshua Grannell and Dr Patricia MacCormack of Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, to discuss Joshua’s development as a filmmaker alongside the genesis and unholy rise to fame of his alternative midnight persona, horror hostess Peaches Christ.
This event will feature early career no-budget shorts, including Season of the Troll, A Nightmare on Castro Street and Whatever Happened to Peaches Christ?
Patricia’s expertise encompasses the fields of philosophy, extreme cinema, feminism and cinesexuality, and she has written upon a diverse range of issues such as body modification, performance art, monster theory and European horror film. She is co-leader of the MA module, ‘Sexuality, Gender and the Post-Human’ and has published chapters in anthologies such as Queering the Non-Human, Deleuze and Queer Theory, Caligari’s Heirs and Zombie Culture.
Suitable for over 15s only.
This event is part of Abandon Normal Devices, produced by Cornerhouse, FACT and folly. See the full programme on the AND festival website.
Price
£5.50 full / £4 concs