March 6
8:30 p.m.
ATA Gallery
992 Valencia (@ 21st)
San Francisco, CA

Hosted by: Other Cinema

Montreal’s transgressive film series Cinema Abattoir heads to the Bay Area to terrorize San Franciscans with a disturbing assortment of cinematic madness for the program entitled “Le cinema, l’apesanteur.” The madman behind Abattoir, Pierre-Luc Vaillancourt will be in attendance and screen his latest film, Neuf Oeufs Noirs.

The program will include both classic underground weirdness and modern visions of the extreme, including work by Abattoir stalwarts Serge de Cotret and Karl Lemieux. Now’s your chance Bay Area citizens to become acquainted with Cinema Abattoir’s unique brand of diabolic insanity:

Essai à la Mille (1970), dir. Jean-Claude Labrecque
Brouillard (2009), dir. Alexandre Larose
Neuf Oeufs Noirs (2010), dir. Pierre-Luc Vaillancourt
Sacré-coeur de Satan (2008), dir. Serge de Cotret
The Sex of Self-Hatred (2004), dir. Solomon Nagler
Mouvement de Lumière (2004), dir. Karl Lemieux
Chromo Sud (1968), dir. Étienne O’Leary
All That Rises (2007), dir. Daichi Saito

You can also visit the Cinema Abattoir website for more info on this fabulous film series.