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Damnation
Béla Tarr
Kárhozat (Damnation)
1988; B&W; 116 mins.
Hungarian with English subtitles
Thursday, December 4, 5pm
Damnation, set in a bleak industrial landscape soaked with constant rain and shrouded in fog, explores the isolation of its central character, Karrer.
His pursuit of a married nightclub singer leads him into moral bankruptcy and ultimately serves only to further compound his isolation. Developed from a short story by the Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai, the film marks a watershed in Tarr's stylistic development, using extremely slow camera movements to create a languid, almost hypnotic, effect.
Talks
Barry White and Sheena Malone will give talks on the exhibitions on Wednesday, December 10 and Wednesday, January 14, 2009.
