To mark the publication of Esther Kinsky's new book Seeing Further, we're hosting a special screening of Jean-Luc Godard's Alphaville, a film that holds a special connection to her newest work.

An inspired fusion of science fiction, pulp characters, and surrealist poetry, Godard’s irreverent journey to the mysterious Alphaville remains one of the least conventional films of all time. It stars Eddie Constantine as intergalactic hero Lemmy Caution, who is on a mission to kill the inventor of fascist computer Alpha 60 in this landmark dystopian noir.

Alphaville has been selected to be shown here by Kinsky as a favourite film at the reopened cinema which is the subject of her new book.

While travelling through south-eastern Hungary, Kinsky stopped in a small town near the Romanian border. Like many other things, the cinema she discovered was long since closed. Entranced by the decaying building, she embarked on the colossal task of reviving it.

Seeing Further is a powerfully eloquent declaration of love to the cinema and the collective experience of watching from one of Germany’s most important contemporary writers.

This screening is presented in partnership with Fitzcarraldo.

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