Schedule for the Real Horror Symposium

Real Horror Symposium Schedule

31 October 2010
Presentation are from 2 – 6 pm
Screening of ‘Martin’ from 6:30 – 8:30pm

2pm
Introductions by co-chair and co-organisers Tom Trevatt and Caryn Coleman

2:30pm
Carl Neville – Reading on the ‘realism’ of horror cinema in the 1970s and 1980s

2:45pm
Ben Rivers – Screening of his artist film Terror (2006)

3:15pm
Simon Clark – Presenting an extract from his PhD thesis The Kiss of the Dead; Towards an Undead Sublimation of Melancholia.

3:45pm
10 minute discussion amongst panel

Break

4pm
Amanda Beech – Discusses and screening of her artist film, Sanity Assassin (2010)

5pm
Mark Fisher – Talk entitled We Are Not Alive, Ligotti: Hume: Holbein: Brassier: Lacan: Spinoza

5:40pm
Floor open for discussion

6:30-8:30pm
Screening of George A. Romero’s Martin (1977) with ghoulish cocktails