Saturday 25 June 2005, 19.00

Gabriel García Moreno, Mexico 1927, 77' Silent with Spanish and English intertitles. Featuring live piano accompaniment by Stephen Horne.

This rare, remarkable silent adventure opens with a young man experiencing his first shot of morphine. To try to describe the rest of the breathless plot would be futile, but suffice to say that it involves hints of bestiality, homosexual orgies, a lecture on the horrors of drug addiction, documentary footage of strait-jacketed patients, and a pipe-smoking ten year-old boy detective who helps save the day. A trail-blazing example of Surrealism in the country that fostered Frida Kahlo and Luis Buñuel, it’s unlikely either artist ever had an opportunity to see the film: after a few screenings in Veracruz, in 1927, the film disappeared from public view until a restored version premièred in Mexico City in 2001.

Tate Modern  Starr Auditorium
£4, booking recommended

    

This event is related to the Frida Kahlo exhibition