Sunday - "brand Upon The Brain!"

[Libby]

Hello, all!

I'm cutting and pasting info below about a new silent gothic horror film that is screening at the D.I.A. this weekend. Sorry for late notice - last two performances are Sunday.

* * * * *

ORPHANS WITH STRANGE HOLES IN THEIR HEADS STORM DETROIT

Director Guy Maddin's latest feature film BRAND UPON THE BRAIN! is a retro-silent thriller that excavates the longings and tragedies of childhood.

Whatever are young "Guy Maddin's" parents really up to in their lighthouse home/orphanage on a chilly remote island? Overbearing Mother tracks her son's every move, calling him home over the "Aerophone" just as something interesting is about to happen! And poor Sis -- Mother will never let her have any fun! The intrigue continues as deranged Mother and sinister Scientist-Father engage in diabolical, secret experimentation…

Time Out Chicago calls it a "psychosexually inflamed fusion of childhood reminiscence, Victorian melodrama, Freudian horror film and gender-bending Nancy Drew adventure…"

7/29, 4 PM & 7 PM

The Detroit Institute of Arts

5200 Woodward Avenue

"What's a suicide attempt without a wedding?!"

http://www.branduponthebrain.com

[Homicidalheathen]

If I can figure how to get down there I will lol