Blood Ceremonies of the Lesbian Vampire - talk

In this illustrated talk Patricia MacCormack will introduce the varied manifestations of lesbian vampires in ‘60s-’70s euro horror including the films of Franco, Larraz, Borowczyk, Grau and with special emphasis on the work of Jean Rollin, with whom the speaker was close friends until his death.

Talk starts 8.30pm

The talk will be followed by a screening of Jorg Grau's rare film Blood Ceremony/Ceremonia Sangrienta, a delirious dream mingling gory gothic with the Bathory tale. Grau, director of Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue, weaves a hypnotic tapestry of bloody desire.

Patricia MacCormack is Professor of Continental Philosophy at ARU, Cambridge. She is the author of 8 books and hundreds of articles covering horror film, queer desire, continental philosophy and corporeal ethics. Her books include Cinesexuality, The Ahuman Manifesto and the new Death Activism. She has appeared on film extras for Redemption, Arrow, BFI, Nucleus and others speaking on transgressive sexuality on film

Presented by Helgi's.

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