A London institution, Dalston Superstore's weekly film night Transmissions joins forces once again with the distinguished pixel farmers at Dream Emulator (Silent Hill Rave) for a very special VHS presentation of David Cronenberg's seductive cyberpunk Thriller eXistenZ (1999).
The team who brought you the Rio's late-night screening of Crimes of the Future (2022) in March are back with another career high from the Canadian auteur that dives into a sticky, characteristically perverse take on virtual reality gaming where guns with teeth for bullets and fleshy consoles mark an eerie landscape you'll never want to leave.
Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jude Law, Ian Holm, and Willem Dafoe star in a film about the pleasures and perils of giving your mind over to digital playgrounds; harnessing the era's anxieties and lacing them with hybrid flesh-tech eroticism and a propulsive, slippery energy that makes it one of Cronenberg's most memorable works.
Join us in the bowels of Dalston Superstore, then sit back, and breathe calmly.
The game has already begun.
Unfortunately subtitles are unavailable due to the format.
Seating is a mixture of benches, backed chairs, bar stools, and floor space, and is first come, first served.