Strange Cinema at Upper Jay Art Center

We're getting freaky this Friday the 13th with a double feature screening of two truly unique animated films.

THE CATHEDRAL OF NEW EMOTIONS (Dir. Helmut Herbst) follows a commune of Berlin stoners and intellectuals who get set adrift in space in 1972 in a packing container clutched in a giant flying hand. So begins our descent down the psychotic rabbit hole of CATHEDRAL, a true hallucinogenic Space Freakout if there ever was one. Watch the trailer here!

GWEN AND THE BOOK OF SAND (Dir. Jean-François Laguionie ) is a hauntingly poetic animated feature of life after the apocalypse, where the few hardy survivors walk on stilts from well to well, scorpions glow like lanterns, and the mysterious Makou drops giant everyday objects – forks, eyeglasses, bathtubs – from the skies. Into this desolate science-fiction landscape, part-DUNE, part-FURY ROAD, emerges the story’s teenage heroine, Gwen. Watch the trailer here!

More to know:

• Both films are foreign language and subtitled in English
• Total run-time of the films combined is 124 minutes
• One film is rated R, total program recommended for ages 17+
• Due to limited seating, we recommend purchasing ahead or emailing info@upperjayartcenter.org to rsvp