UCCA Beijing

Nadim Abbas: Reveries of a Sedentary Explorer

2016.9.24 - 2016.10.16

Cinema Arts
Location:  Auditorium
Language:  Various Languages with Chinese subtitles

My work owes a great deal to the cinema and the kinds of images that are crystallized therein. This is a collection of science fiction films—each a classic in its own right—showing that perhaps the most alien of landscapes is located not in outer space, but right here in the cracks and crevices of the mind and imagination.

—Nadim Abbas

Ticketing: Free

Note:

*Collect your ticket from reception 30 minutes before the event begins;

* Please no late entry;

*Seating is limited, and tickets must be collected individually;

*Please keep mobile devices on silent.

Schedule

9-24 (Sat) 14:00-15:30 Moon

9-24 (Sat) 16:00-18:00 Robinson Crusoe on Mars

9-24 (Sat) 18:30-21:00 The Man Who Fell to Earth

10-16 (Sun) 13:00-14:30 Jodorowsky's Dune

10-16 (Sun) 15:00-16:30 Videodrome

10-16 (Sun) 17:00-19:30 Stalker

About the Film

Moon

Director: Duncan Jones

Starring: Sam Rockwell, Kevin Spacey, Dominique McElligott

Genre: Drama / Mystery / Sci-Fi

Country: UK

Runtime: 97 min.

Astronaut Sam Bell has a quintessentially personal encounter toward the end of his three-year stint on the Moon, where he, working alongside his computer, GERTY, sends back to Earth parcels of a resource that has helped diminish our planet's power problems.

Robinson Crusoe on Mars

Director: Byron Haskin

Starring: Paul Mantee, Victor Lundin, Adam West

Country: American

Runtime: 110 min.

Stranded on Mars with only a monkey as a companion, an astronaut must figure out how to find oxygen, water, and food on the lifeless planet.

The Man Who Fell to Earth

Director: Nicolas Roeg

Starring: David Bowie, Rip Torn, Candy Clark

Genre: Sci-Fi / Drama

Country: UK

Runtime: 139 min.

Thomas Jerome Newton is a humanoid alien who comes to Earth to get water for his dying planet. He starts a high technology company to get the billions of dollars he needs to build a return spacecraft, and meets Mary-Lou, a girl who falls in love with him. He does not count on the greed and ruthlessness of business here on Earth, however.

Jodorowsky's Dune

Director: Frank Pavich

Starring: Alejandro Jodorowsky, Michel Seydoux, H.R. Giger

Genre: Documentary / Sci-Fi

Country: France / USA

Runtime: 90 min.

The story of cult film director Alejandro Jodorowsky's ambitious but ultimately doomed film adaptation of the seminal science fiction novel.

Videodrome

Director: David Cronenberg

Starring: James Woods, Debbie Harry, Sonja Smits

Genre: Horror / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller

Country: Canada

Runtime: 89 min.

Max Renn runs a TV channel, and when looking for new material to show, he discovers "Videodrome." His girlfriend, Nicki Brand, goes to audition for the show, and Max gets drawn into the underlying plot that uses the show as its front for a global conspiracy.

Stalker

Director: Andrey Tarkovskiy

Starring: Alisa Freyndlikh, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy, Anatoliy

Solonitsyn

Genre: Drama / Mystery / Sci-Fi

Country: Soviet Union

Runtime: 163 min.

Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, an alien place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers. Over his wife's objections, a man rises in the early morning and leaves her with their disabled daughter to meet two men. He's a Stalker, one of a handful who have the mental gifts (and who risk imprisonment) to lead people into the Zone to the Room, a place where one's secret hopes come true. His clients are a burned out popular writer, cynical, and questioning his talent; and a quiet scientist more concerned about his knapsack than the journey. In the deserted Zone, the approach to the Room must be indirect. As they draw near, the rules seem to change and the Stalker faces a crisis.

Projection Support

BARCO