A Page of Madness - Teinosuke Kinugasa 1926 (w/ live score performed by LA Griffin)
Star and Shadow Cinema, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 1BB
Friday 4th December 2026 7:30PM
Coming to the screen at Star & Shadow Cinema in December A Page of Madness 狂った一頁. Teinosuke Kinugasa's disquieting 1926 Japanese silent horror, a landmark of avant-garde cinema.
Written and produced in collaboration with the experimental artists' collective Shinkankakuha (新感覚派, "New Sensationalists"), the film follows a janitor who takes a job at a psychiatric hospital to remain close to his wife, a patient confined within its walls. Influenced by German Expressionism yet unmistakably its own, Kinugasa tells the story through a blizzard of rapid editing, restless camerawork and fragmented, dreamlike narrative, blurring the boundaries between memory, fantasy and reality. Nearly a century later, its hallucinatory imagery still feels startlingly modern. Contemporary audiences may recognise precursors to the psychological unease of Ring and the visceral body horror of Tetsuo: The Iron Man.
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Accompanying the screening will be an original live electronic score performed by North East DJ and producer LA Griffin, co-founder of Newcastle techno night Municipal. Responding to the film’s fractured imagery and dreamlike intensity through glacial textures and precise, hypnagogic electronics.
Written and produced in collaboration with the experimental artists' collective Shinkankakuha (新感覚派, "New Sensationalists"), the film follows a janitor who takes a job at a psychiatric hospital to remain close to his wife, a patient confined within its walls. Influenced by German Expressionism yet unmistakably its own, Kinugasa tells the story through a blizzard of rapid editing, restless camerawork and fragmented, dreamlike narrative, blurring the boundaries between memory, fantasy and reality. Nearly a century later, its hallucinatory imagery still feels startlingly modern. Contemporary audiences may recognise precursors to the psychological unease of Ring and the visceral body horror of Tetsuo: The Iron Man.
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Accompanying the screening will be an original live electronic score performed by North East DJ and producer LA Griffin, co-founder of Newcastle techno night Municipal. Responding to the film’s fractured imagery and dreamlike intensity through glacial textures and precise, hypnagogic electronics.
Event Details
Starts at 7:30PM
