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LANDMARK EUROPEAN FILM

Frost is a landmark European film, cementing Kelemen as an inheritor of Fassbinder and Herzog.

PLOT

This three-hour epic 16mm film focuses on a mother and son fleeing her abusive husband in Berlin and wandering the former East Germany seeking a town that has long since vanished.

Set during a sunless Christmas, Frost slowly unfolds during their one-week odyssey across glacial landscapes, towards peace.

FRED KELEMEN: "URGENTLY RELEVANT" 

One of the boldest German filmmakers of the last 20-years, critic Susan Sontag compared Kelemen’s “urgently relevant” work to Sokurov and collaborator Bela Tarr.

He garnered attention for his 1990s trilogy – Fate, Frost and Nightfall.

Believing in “time and not in speed”, meditations on human dissolution, cruelty and loneliness unfold at somnambulant pace.

Set amongst Europe’s late-capitalist underclass of the unemployed and dispossessed, he captures nocturnal urban low-life with beauty.

+ DISCUSSION WITH DIRECTOR AND FILM CRITIC

Kelemen will be present to introduce and discuss his work, in conversation with the famous film critic Jonathan Romney (from Sight & Sound magazine).

+ CINEMA OPEN FROM 7.30PM + PIZZA!

Come early and have a drink and a delicious pizza with us!

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Part of AV Festival 12: As Slow As Possible

GET YOUR TICKETS HERE www.avfestival.co.uk

PRICE: £5/£3.50 (conc)

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WHOLE PROGRAMME OF THE AV FESTIVAL AT THE STAR AND SHADOW HERE http://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/season/111

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