Join REC for a Halloween screening of Jean-Pierre Bekolo’s Cameroonian political thriller The Bloodettes.

THE BLOODETTES: REVELRY + VENGEANCE

This Halloween, join REC for a screening of Jean-Pierre Bekolo’s Cameroonian political thriller The Bloodettes. Set in a dystopian Afrofuturist landscape, the film follows two sex workers in their quest to dispose of a corpse and resist institutional exploitation.

In The Bloodettes, Afrofuturism and its stylistic excess serve as a genre for political world-making and imagination, presenting new possibilities of feminist agency and movement through persisting systems of oppression. Here, revelry and vengeance converge: two Black women revel in splendour and magic as they navigate sexuality, corruption, and state power to resist the institutional exploitation of a near-distant future.

Doors open: 6:00PM

Film starts: 6:30 PM

Film duration: 90 mins

CONTENT WARNING: This film contains scenes of sex, violence, gore and misogyny. Cert: 15.

Radical Exhibition Collective is a film collective with a focus on supporting access to film culture in Birmingham. Through diasporic programming and centring subaltern expression, REC seeks to increase access to independent, archival and experimental film and moving image. They recognise the potential of film watching spaces as sites of resistance, community gathering and a tool for collective liberation.

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