Alan Palomo (aka Neon Indian) presents Diva
February 25, 2020 7:00pm
This monthly series brings a prominent artistic or cultural figure to BAM to discuss the film that inspired their passion for cinema, followed by a screening of the film.
Inspired by the Screen Epiphanies series at London’s BFI Southbank
Diva
Dir. Jean-Jacques Beineix
With Frédéric Andréi, Wilhelmenia Fernandez, Richard Bohringer
1981, 117min, 35mm
This ultra-stylish, cooler-than-cool French thriller became one of the cult sensations of the 1980s and helped kick off the filmmaking movement known, appropriately enough, as the cinéma du look. Unfolding against an eye-popping, colorfully modernist vision of the Paris underworld, Jean-Jacques Beineix’s debut feature follows a young postman as he stumbles headlong into a shadowy conspiracy involving secret tapes, an opera singer whose voice has never been recorded, and a murder.
Slumlord Rising
Dir. Alan Palomo
2015, 8min
The music video for Neon Indian’s single “Slumlord” is an electric blue and pink-spattered sci-fi-horror hallucination set to a disco beat.
General Admission: $17
Location
Peter Jay Sharp Building – BAM Rose Cinemas
30 Lafayette Ave.
Brooklyn NY 11217 USA