Event
SIMON AND THE RADIOACTIVE FLESH -DALSTON
14 Oct 2007
Regular hours
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Cost of entry
5 Pounds (tickets from Arcola box office 020 7503 1646)
Address
- 27 Arcola Street
- London
- E8 2DJ
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Bus: 30, 38, 67, 76, 149, & 243
- Rail: Dalston Kingsland Station (North London Line)
About
A film and intermittent video art screening that transcends into a purgatorial nightclub.Simon and the Radioactive Flesh uses Louis Bunuel's 45 minute film of an ascetic, Simon, a devotee of Simon Stylites, who proclaims his faith through standing on a column in the desert. The devil visits on several occasions to lure him from his duty, eventually succeeding in transposing him to purgatory; an existential beat nightclub in 1960's New York. In this reworking of the original film, each time the devil appears the narrative is interrupted by the insertion of a contemporary video art work. The interruptions continue throughout the film until finally we too are spatially interrupted, finding ourselves in a parallel to the purgatorial nightclub setting of the film's last dance, Carne Radioactivo (The Radioactive Flesh).
