The Swimmer is a 1968 American surreal drama film starring Burt Lancaster. The film was written and directed by Academy Award-nominated husband-and-wife team of Eleanor Perry and Frank Perry. The story is based on the 1964 short story "The Swimmer" by John Cheever, which appeared in the July 18, 1964, issue of The New Yorker. A man spends a summer day swimming home via all the pools in his quiet suburban neighborhood.

“A delirious mix of punk nihilism and deadpan irony, the first film in Gregg Araki’s Teen Apocalypse Trilogy puts an audaciously queer spin on Jean-Luc Godard’s classic Masculin féminin. Across fifteen jagged episodes, Totally F***ed Up plunges headlong into the lives of a group of queer, disaffected Los Angeles teenagers who form a kind of makeshift family as they navigate desire and heartbreak, societal and familial rejection, and the alienation of growing up gay in an era of relentless moralizing. Both a defiantly raw anthem of outsiderhood and a furious reckoning with all-American homophobia, Araki’s answer to the 1980s teen comedy captures youthful angst with an immediacy that still bruises.” - Criterion

"Totally F***d Up never really lets us get to know these young people, but that works in a way, because they don't really know themselves" - Lisa Hite (Curator)

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“Gregg Araki takes a road trip to hell in this wild, meth- and fast-food-fueled joyride through the margins of a menacing American wasteland. When they inadvertently link up with a dangerously alluring drifter (Johnathon Schaech), a chilled-out Cali bro (James Duval) and his spiky, foulmouthed girlfriend (Rose McGowan) find themselves on an increasingly violent, kinky, and darkly comic journey in which erotic tensions rise along with the body count. Working with a significant budget for the first time, Araki employs boldly stylized lighting and art direction to create a heightened sense of unreality in a shocking, shoegaze-soundtracked chronicle of young lives careening toward oblivion.”- Criterion

"Gregg Araki envisages the final decade of the century as a rampant forest fire of kitsch and catastrophe." - Lisa Hite (Curator)

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“You can practically smell the pheromones wafting off this kaleidoscopic odyssey, which finds director Gregg Araki crossing soap-operatic elements with blasts of science fiction, indie-kid cool, and shiny pop-art subversion. On the day when the world is foretold to end, a group of terminally horny, disillusioned, zonked-out teens in Los Angeles see their lives explode in a glitter bomb of drugs, sex, death, and alien abduction. Bisexual lust, vaporizing Valley girls, sinister televangelists, nipple-ring S&M, murder by Campbell’s-soup can—Araki folds it all into an anarchic orgy that brings his Teen Apocalypse Trilogy to an explosively caustic close.” -Criterion

"Viewers who can turn their mental dials to Araki's wavelength are likely to marvel at his ability to pile on the excess with hair-raising exuberance, then extract from the rubble images of startling beauty and nuggets of genuine feeling." - Lisa Hite (Curator)

A pet baby alligator is flushed down a toilet and survives in the city sewers. Twelve years later, it grows to an enormous size thanks to a diet of discarded laboratory dogs injected with growth hormones. Now, humans have entered the menu.

“ Five years after Jaws horrified audiences across the nation, a creature even scarier, more sinister and more heart-stopping has emerged: Ramon. He started his life as an adorable baby alligator who was banished to the dingy sewers running beneath Chicago. After twelve years on his own, consuming three meals a day (plus snacks) of lab-treated stray dogs, he is seeking his revenge. This giant alligator will have you on the edge of your seat as he takes out many blue collar workers, children, and wedding guests.” - Harley Elliott (Curator)

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Martin Creed presents the first rough cut of a new film. There will be the chance to engage with Martin in discussion after the screening. This is Creed's first feature length film. His many short films include 'Sick Film' (2006) and 'What The Fuck Am I Doing?' (2017).

Synopsis: A little boy growing up, seen through the eyes and hair of a young woman. A coming-of-age story told in episodes from conception through the very earliest memories of infanthood to high school, art education and first love. An interwoven story of clothes moves up the body from socks and shoes to trousers and hats. Along the way some various helpful guides to sides of life are offered in the form of chapters on “The Trouser Problem” and “What Are Moustaches For?”. Based on a true story, memories were filmed in the places where they happened, including Lenzie Academy, Glasgow, where current-day students of the school perform in scenes from the classroom of bullying, misbehaviour and sports. Other, dreamlike acts were filmed in an odd admixture of locations including Las Vegas, USA, and Ascoli Piceno, Italy. John McEnroe features in one fantastical scene on a Malibu tennis court.

Written and directed by Martin Creed. Cinematography, music and clothes by Martin Creed. Featuring Layla Burns, Heidi Rider, Laurie Luxe, Sita Pieraccini, Lorena Randi, William Forest, Cyril Rabbath, Martin Creed, Delphine Gaborit,  Luigi Randi, Rafael Schilt, Kerry Biggin, Isis Clooney, Alessandor Earnest, Students of Lenzie Academy, Sonny Jones Randi, Students of Ilkley Grammar School, Students of PACE Youth Theatre Paisley, Students of Miniera delle Arti and Frida Art Academy, Ascoli Piceno, John McEnroe, Lisa Edelstein and Lily Cole. 

About the Filmmaker: Martin Creed's work has been shown worldwide, including at Hauser & Wirth London, 2004, Trussardi Foundation, Milan, 2006; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, 2009; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 2012; Hayward Gallery, London, 2014; Park Avenue Armory, New York, 2016; Centro Botin, Santander, 2019; Summer Hall, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, 2022 and at the Museum für Konkrete Kunst in Ingolstadt, Germany, 2023.

He won the Turner Prize in 2001 with ‘Work No. 227: The lights going on and off’ and this work is now part of the Museum of Modern Art collection in New York. Public works include ‘Work No. 975: EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE ALRIGHT’ on the façade of Christ Church Art Gallery in New Zealand; ‘Work No. 1059: The Scotsman Steps’, Edinburgh; and ‘Work No. 1197: All the bells in the country rung as quickly and as loudly as possible for three minutes’, which was commissioned for the opening of the London Olympics. Orchestral works include commissions for the London Sinfonietta and Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra.

Vincent, an "In-Valid", assumes the identity of a member of the genetic elite to pursue his goal of traveling into space with the Gattaca Aerospace Corporation. However, a week before his mission, a murder marks Vincent as a suspect.

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Hong Kong starlet Maggie Cheung arrives in France to portray Irma Vep in a remake of Les Vampires (1915), but the production is plagued by behind-the-scenes intrigues.