CinemARC: Witches and Witchcraft
CinemARC is excited to present Nicolas Roeg's The Witches for this year's Halloween film screening at the ARC on Wednesday 30th October!
About CinemARC: Witches and Witchcraft
| 30th October 2024 | |
| 5.30pm - 8.30pm | |
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Mazumdar Shaw Advanced Research Centre 11 Chapel Lane, Glasgow West End G11 6EW |
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| Free but booking required | |
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In this Roald Dahl adaptation, a little boy and his kindly grandmother thwart the efforts of a coven of witches to rid Britain of children by turning them into mice.
After the screening, you will hear from Kachine Moore and Katherine Prentice, two researchers from the School of Culture and Creative Arts whose work explores the occult in film. They’ll be discussing representations of witches and witchcraft in popular cinema and how the witch became such a potent cultural symbol.
Schedule
Doors open: 17:30
The Witches: 18:00 - 19:30
Presentations and Q&A: 19:30 - 20:15
The Witches (PG) | 1990 | 91 min
While staying at a hotel in England with his grandmother, a young boy, Luke, inadvertently spies on a coven of witches. The Grand High Witch reveals a plan to turn all children into mice through a magical formula. When they find that Luke has overheard, the witches test the formula on him and, with the help of his grandmother, he must fight back to foil their plot.
About Kachine Moore:
Kachine Moore (all/any) is a current PhD student of occult cinemas in the Film and TV department at the University of Glasgow and holds an MA in Cinema Studies from New York University. They are the creator of Cinematic-Grimoire, a digital archive of magician and occultist contributions to cinema, and co-founder and programmer of Match Cuts Presents, a screening series in New York City (2016-2020).
About Katherine Prentice:
Katherine Prentice (she/her) is a Film Studies MRes researcher at the University of Glasgow, focusing on rural populations, childness, and gender and how they intersect in eugenic narratives in popular horror cinema in her thesis, The monstrous crip and the abject body: representations of disability in American horror cinema. She is looking to pursue research on colonial narratives of disability in horror, as well as the figures of the hag and the disabled child as threat in the genre.
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