Andrzej Żuławski's 'On The Silver Globe' (1988)

Presented by: The Horse Hospital

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0	LONDON: The Horse Hospital
P	Friday 12th April, 2019
N	7:00pm

Event information

We are pleased to present a restored version of Andrzej Żuławski’s thwarted sci-fi masterpiece as part of the exhibition Lunar Futurism: Costumes, Props & Ephemera from Andrzej Żuławski's On the Silver Globe.

With Earth’s civilisation in decay, a team of astronauts are sent to populate a new planet. The last original survivor Jerzy (Jerzy Trela) is treated by the emergent feudal society as a demi-god, and sends a video diary back to Earth before his death. Hundreds of years later the video is found. Marek (Andrzej Seweryn) is sent to explore the planet, where the violent human civilisation is at war with telepathic bird-people. He is treated like a messiah by the humans, but for how long? The Epic deconstructed creation myth foretold the dystopian cinematic trend of the 1980’s, yet was shut down in 1977 before it’s completion.

This screening is part of Lunar Futurism an exhibition featuring some of the rare surviving remnants from Andrzej Żuławski’s notorious science fiction masterpiece On Silver Globe (1988).

Curated by Daniel Bird & The Horse Hospital, in association with Kinoteka Polish Film Festival.