Uncanny Film Club
A film club dedicated to delving into the depths of the psychological experience of Freud’s concept of the ‘Uncanny' on screen
“A story of the supernatural cannot be taken apart and analysed too closely. The ultimate test of its rationale is whether it is good enough to raise the hairs on the back of your neck. If you submit it to a completely logical and detailed analysis it will eventually appear absurd. In his essay on the uncanny, Das Unheimliche, Freud said that the uncanny is the only feeling which is more powerfully experienced in art than in life. If the genre required any justification, I should think this alone would serve as its credentials”.
– Stanley Kubrick
Screenings
Possession
Dir. Andrzej Żuławski (1981)
Our first screening took place at the Lexi Cinema as an Anti-Valentine’s Special on 14th February 2020 with an introduction by myself.
And a few days later, the world as we knew it came to a halt.

