A Page of Madness - Teinosuke Kinugasa 1926

Coming to the screen at Star & Shadow Cinema in December A Page of Madness kuangtta yi ye.

Teinosuke Kinugasa's disquieting 1926 Japanese silent horror, a landmark of avant-garde cinema.Written and produced in collaboration with the experimental artists' collective Shinkankakuha (xin gan jue pai, "New Sensationalists"), the film follows a janitor who takes a job at a psychiatric hospital to remain close to his wife, a patient confined within its walls.

Influenced by German Expressionism yet unmistakably its own, Kinugasa tells the story through a blizzard of rapid editing, restless camerawork and fragmented, dreamlike narrative, blurring the boundaries between memory, fantasy and reality.

Nearly a century later, its hallucinatory imagery still feels startlingly modern.

Contemporary audiences may recognise precursors to the psychological unease of Ring and the visceral body horror of Tetsuo: The Iron Man.Accompanying the screening will be an original live electronic score performed by North East DJ and producer LA Griffin, co-founder of Newcastle techno night Municipal.

Responding to the film's fractured imagery and dreamlike intensity through glacial textures and precise, hypnagogic electronics.