Tonights film program at the Slackers Salon / oPeRaTiNg ThEatRe...

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Cinema TONIGHT at the Slackers Salon / oPeRaTiNg tHeAtRe .....

Peter Watkins double special:

22:30 THE WAR GAME (1965)

Peter Watkins' incendiary 'mockumentary' - long banned by the BBC who funded it - preconstructs the effects of a nuclear attack on England. This is no 'talking heads' documentary. Instead, Watkins gets biopolitical and takes you inside the nuclear firestorm 'moment-by-moment' - from the slow creep of radiation sickness to the ensuing tactics of military rule and 'condoned exterminations' inside the State of Emergency. Its a dark and prescient film chronicalling social disenintegration and war. Winner of Oscar award for best documentary (1966).

PLUS

23:30 PUNISHMENT PARK (1971)

Pter Watkins' film vividly imagines a world where political dissidents are pursued in scorching heat by the forces of law and order through a desert landscape in a 'game' devised by the US Government. Think Guatanamo Bay meets Big Brother (the TV show that is).....

PLUS

special secret shorts from Martha Colburn

WHERE: Slackers Salon (E field i think) near the Wireless Village WHEN: from 22:30 tonight

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