A event held at Spike Island on Saturday 8th March. The event starts at 18:00.
On the occasion of Danielle Dean's exhibition, This Could All Be Yours!, Spike Island will screen Quatermass II, a science-fiction B-film shot in Hemel Hempstead in 1957, which inspired Dean's film Hemel (2024).
The plot of Quatermass II revolves around the arrival of a non-human entity that infiltrates the minds and residents and endangers life with a toxic black slime from outer space, which was cultivated in a local factory by workers. Eventually, the workers become possessed by this alien life form and the black mass expands and threatens to destroy the town.
Taking inspiration from the premise and production of Quatermass II (1957), Dean's Hemel (2024) re-imagines and re-enacts the very town in which the 1957 film was made reflecting on deep fears re-emerging around the world based on racism, job scarcity, and the return of extreme nationalist ideologies.
6:00pm – doors open
6.15pm – Quatermass II starts
7.40pm – film ends
To book your place, please visit our website:
spikeisland.org.uk/programme/events/
Image Credit:
Val Guest, Quatermass II (1957). Film still. Image courtesy Hammer Film Productions
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
The plot of Quatermass II revolves around the arrival of a non-human entity that infiltrates the minds and residents and endangers life with a toxic black slime from outer space, which was cultivated in a local factory by workers. Eventually, the workers become possessed by this alien life form and the black mass expands and threatens to destroy the town.
Taking inspiration from the premise and production of Quatermass II (1957), Dean's Hemel (2024) re-imagines and re-enacts the very town in which the 1957 film was made reflecting on deep fears re-emerging around the world based on racism, job scarcity, and the return of extreme nationalist ideologies.
6:00pm – doors open
6.15pm – Quatermass II starts
7.40pm – film ends
To book your place, please visit our website:
spikeisland.org.uk/programme/events/
Image Credit:
Val Guest, Quatermass II (1957). Film still. Image courtesy Hammer Film Productions
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
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