Some of Hell Is Born of Good Manners

anorak invites Sara Neidorf and Eli Lewy (Final Girls Berlin Film Festival) for an evening of horror shorts and artists’ moving image. Eerie, macabre, and comedic, the works find a haunting and at times, sadistic sense of pleasure in deconstructing the filmic conventions of horror cinema. By digesting images of the normative, the intact body as a whole, they appropriate and transform genre tropes, revealing the everyday horror they are born out of.

Screening programme:
Laura Moss, Allen Anders: Live at Comedy Castle (circa 1987), 2018, 7:10 min
Ellen Cantor, Within Heaven and Hell, 1996, 15:52 min
Gloria Camiruaga, Popsicles, 1982-84, 6:00 min
Maria Martinez Bayona, Such Small Hands, 2020, 19:00 min
Emily Wilson, Danny’s Girl, 2020, 12:48 min
Marinah Janello, Entropia, 2018, 15:00 min
Jordan Strafer, Get Happy Sparkle, 2020, 6:39 min

The screening will be followed by a conversation with Sara Neidorf (in English).

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Final Girls Berlin Film Festival showcases horror films directed, written or produced by women and non-binary filmmakers. Founded by Sara Neidorf and Eli Lewy, the festival is committed to creating space for female voices and visions in the horror genre, whether monstrous, heroic or a messy combination of the two. Challenging representations of women as beautified victims and constructions of male fantasies or anxieties in the field, they promote films that see women as subjects and storytellers.