Cine-Excess IV Corporeal Excess: Cult Bodies

Cine-Excess IV: the Fourth International Conference on Global Cult Film take place between Thursday 29th April and Saturday 1st May 2010 and celebrates and re-evaluates some of the biggest trends, icons, auteurs and periods of global cult film production. 

To encompass the biggest Cine-Excess International Cult Film Conference and Festival to date, this year’s event once again takes place at Odeon Covent Garden, which is located on Shaftsbury Avenue within the vibrant entertainment hub of London’s Soho district:

Cine-Excess IV Guest of Honour: Joe Dante (Piranha, The Howling, Gremlins).

Cine-Excess are delighted to confirm that this year’s Guest of Horror is leading cult horror icon Joe Dante, who will be recipient of the 2010 Cine-Excess Lifetime Achievement Award. 

In an illustrious and high profile career, Dante pioneered the use of SFX and cutting edge, comedy horror in a series of cult classics that included Piranha (1978), The Howling (1981), Gremlins (1984), The ‘Burbs’ (1989), and the TV political satire Homecoming (2005).

Dante has continued to experiment with new forms of movie technology including 3D and internet modes of delivery, while his love of cult film has also resulted in him compiling the crucial A-Z of classic cult promos Trailers from Hell.

Joe Dante recently completed a restoration of his 1968 rarely seen cult collage epic The Movie Orgy, which was screened at the Venice Film Festival. We are delighted to present an exclusive UK theatrical premiere of a 90 minute cut of The Movie Orgy on Thursday 29th April at 8.30pm. This will be followed by an on-stage discussion between Joe Dante and leading film critic Kim Newman.

Joe Dante will receive his Cine-Excess Lifetime Achievement Award on Friday 30th April at 5pm.

CULT BODIES AND BODIES OF KNOWLEDGE: THE CINE-EXCESS IV CONFERENCE

Cine Excess IV will be staging the three day conference ‘Corporeal Excess: Cult Bodies’ between 29th April-1st May 2010. The themed event is focused to tie in with our invited Guest of Honour Joe Dante, internationally celebrated creator of a number of body horror/comic horror classics. 

The conference and festival will focus on the body in cult media including film, TV, games, comics and online media. Various aspects of how the body has been represented within the cult tradition will be discussed: spectacular, monstrous, mutilated, erotic, gendered, transfigured, censored, ethnic, transgressive, unruly, resistant, grotesque, dead, violent, objectified and technologically enhanced.

Corporeal Excess: Cult Bodies features a high profile keynote address by Professor Richard Dyer (King’s College), on the topic of European serial killers in society and cinema. Professor Dyer is the author of a number of extremely influential volumes including Stars (BFI, 1979; reprinted 1980, 1985, 1991; new edition 1998), Heavenly Bodies: Film Stars and Society, (Macmillan, 1987); Now You See It: Historical Studies in Lesbian and Gay Film, (Routledge, 1990), The Matter of Images: Essays on Representations ( Routledge, 1993), White, (Routledge, 1997), Seven (BFI, 1999) and Pastiche (Routledge, 2006). We are delighted to host such a distinguished keynote at Cine-Excess IV, and Professor Dyer’s talk will take place on Friday 30th April at 11.45am.   

Corporeal Excess: Cult Bodies also features over 30 talks, panel discussions and plenary sessions by leading critics and theorists including Stacey Abbott, Lorna Jowett, Darren Kerr, Tina Lorenz, Charlie Blake, Beth Johnson, Clarissa Smith, Adam Locks, Iain Robert Smith, Michael Ahmed, Steven Rawle, Aga Skrodzka-Bates, Adrian Smith, Rachel Mizsei Ward, Tamao Nakahara, Ian Hunter, Siu Yan Xavier Tam, Kazumi, Mia Chen, Daniel Portland, Darren Elliott, Nicola Woodham, Richard Nowell, Wickham Clayton and Johnny Walker.

Corporeal Excess: Cult Bodies takes place at the Odeon Covent Garden at the following times: Thursday 29th April 2010 (11am-5.30pm), Friday 30th April (10am-6pm) and Saturday 1st May 2010 (10am-12.30pm).

A full conference schedule for Corporeal Excess: Cult Bodies can be downloaded as a PDF from the following link: Corporeal Excess: Cult Bodies