Creature (2022) (12A) & Devon Gothic
SCREENING AS PART OF FROM PAGE TO SCREEN FILM FESTIVAL
Tickets: Adult £6 | Cons & U25’s £5
Acclaimed choreographer Abram Khan collaborated with award-winning director Asif Kapadia (Senna, Amy, Diego Maradona) for this thrilling screen adaptation of the English National Ballet’s dystopian sci-fi Creature. Charismatic star Jeffrey Cirio is the feral Frankenstein-inspired Creature, a captive in an Arctic research facility where he is subjected to the cruel experiments and whims of the Doctor (Stina Quagebeur) and the Major (Ken Suruhashi). Cirio’s electrifying central performance oscillates between innocent devotion and bestial abjection in this tragic tale of the outsider’s search for belonging in the face of barbaric tyranny and the conflicting hope of compassion and connection.
DIRECTOR | Asif Kapadia
STARS | Jeffrey Cirio, Stina Quagebeur and Erina Takahashi
SOURCE TEXT | Akram Khan’s English National Ballet work, inspired by Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Georg Büchner’s play Wojzeck
Screening alongside
Devon Gothic | 2017 | 17mins
Winner, Best Director, Bristol Independent Film Festival
Mary Shelley (Tristan Coleslaw/Abigail Oaks) joins forces with her creature to destroy a tormenting bird – the spirit of poet Thomas Chatterton. Julian Firth appears as Baron Frankenstein. Introduction by local director Alice Evans, who shot her film around Axminster and Lyme Regis.