Kino Club Presents: A Zed and Two Noughts

Two women are killed in a car crash with a swan. The accident occurs in front of a zoo, where the women's husbands, two zoologist brothers, work. The driver of the crashed car, Alba Bewick, is the only survivor. In an attempt to comprehend their grief, the brothers, Oliver and Oswald Deuce, watch natural history films about the development of life and begin unusual time-lapse photography ...experiments of decomposing animals. They also, individually, sleep with zoo prostitute and storyteller, Venus De Milo. She rescues Oliver when he attempts to take an overdose. Alba, the car crash survivor, has her leg amputated by surgeon, Van Meegeren. Van Meegeren is partially obsessed with the painter Vermeer, and he restages one of his paintings, with Alba as the subject.

A Zed & Two Noughts (A.K.A. Z00) is a 1985 film written and directed by Peter Greenaway. This film was Greenaway's first with cinematography by Sacha Vierny, who went on to shoot virtually all of Greenaway's work in the 1980s and 1990s, until Vierny's death; Vierny was referred to by Greenaway's as his "most important collaborator." This film is a must see for any film fanatic.

Dir: Peter Greenaway 1985, Uk Netherlands
Colour Cert. 18 115mins

Trailer & Introduction to the film by Peter Greenaway

Doors 7.30pm
Film Screening 8.00pm (£2.50)

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