Let's go to the movies. First Light heads to Austin Film Society for a screening of Crash, David Cronenberg's visceral, bizarre, and transgressive adaptation of J.G. Ballard's novel about people who are obsessed with car crashes and their aftermath. Tickets include access to the screening and conversation with author Violet Lucca on Cronenberg's work and her forthcoming monograph, DAVID CRONENBERG CLINICAL TRIALS. First Light will be selling copies of both Lucca's and Ballard's books at AFS Cinema.
About the book
An illustrated monograph on the work of legendary writer and director David Cronenberg, master of body horror and cinematic provocateur behind films such as The Fly, Scanners, Naked Lunch, Eastern Promises, and Crimes of the Future. Cronenberg’s films have long enjoyed a cult following, pushing the boundaries of taste, blending high art with horror, and straddling the commercial and the cutting-edge. With this handsome book, the familiar and unfamiliar aspects of iconic films such as Videodrome, The Fly, Naked Lunch, and Crash is explored.
Though dividing the book into two halves suggests a binary, the Jungian-inspired chapters within each emphasize that this work—and the world itself—is perpetually shifting. The reader progresses through these different stages (of Jungian individuation and therapy) and sees how the recurrent narrative, cultural, and visual themes loop back and intersect with one another. Rather than a straightforward narrative about a filmmaker, this book is a dreamlike exploration of all that is Cronenbergian.
Featuring a foreword by Oscar-nominated actor Viggo Mortensen, it also includes interviews with composer Howard Shore, production designer Carol Spier, cinematographer Peter Suschitzky, and producer and playwright/screenwriter Jeremy Thomas.
About the author
Violet Lucca’s writing has appeared in The New York Times, Criterion’s The Current, Art in America, The Village Voice, and elsewhere. She studied film and film production at the University of Iowa, graduating with honors, and received her master’s degree in cinema studies from New York University in 2009.
Violet will be joined in conversation by Lars Nilsen, the lead programmer at AFS.
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