The East End Film Festival and A Curious Invitation present a weekend of disaster themed cinema.

Expect no less as you will be immersed within a huge masked masquerade ball complete with circus rigs, Jodorowsky and burlesque performance; in what might be London's most gorgeous, atmospheric, eerie venue: the Masonic Temple at the Andaz Liverpool Street.

Cinema explores the world we inhabit; it’s able to look at the world and highlight ills—past and present— and set up the various possibilities of our future. With The Warning we package these stories into one large narrative, starting with a voice from the past, following through unease, unrest and the inevitable resistance. Sadly this tale takes a dark turn where warnings were ignored and we end up in the seemingly inevitable dystopian future, where the struggles, though different, have continued headlong towards collapse.

The Warning weaves it’s way through Freemasonry’s historical connections to the crafts folk and guilds and their own grand aims of unification and fraternity, while being conspiratorially viewed as a secretive organisation for world domination. What could possibly go wrong? — Josh Saco, Masonic Temple programmer

Screenings

Sat 2nd July:

2 PM
THE DISQUIET
Give Us Tomorrow
Dir: Donovan Winter | UK | 1978 | 94 min
In association with Nucleus Films
Masked intruders take the family of a bank manager hostage in order to rob his bank.

THE REVOLT
Land and Freedom (16mm screening)
Dir: Ken Loach | UK, Spain | 1995 | 110 min
Spring 1936, a young unemployed communist, David, leaves his hometown Liverpool to join the fight against fascism in Spain.

Sun 3rd July:

12pm
THE RESULT
Brazil
Dir: Terry Gilliam | USA | 1985 | 134 min
16mm screening
A bureaucrat in a retro-future world tries to correct an administrative error and himself becomes an enemy of the state.

THE LAW
Dredd
Dir: Pete Travis | USA | 2012 | 95 min
In a violent, futuristic city where the police have the authority to act as judge, jury and executioner, a cop teams with a trainee to take down a gang that deals the reality-altering drug, SLO-MO

4.30pm
THE ENTERTAINMENT
The Running Man
Dir: Paul Michael Glaser | USA | 1987 | 101 min
Presented by Science Fiction Theatre
A wrongly convicted man must try to survive a public execution gauntlet staged as a game show.

THE END

Things to Come
Dir: William Cameron Menzies | USA | 1939 | 97 min
Presented by Filmbar70
The story of a century: a decades-long World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space travel.Cigarettes Burns
 

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COMPETITION: Win 1x pair of tickets to attend The Masonic Masquerade at the Andaz Hotel, Liverpool Street, on 2nd July at 7.30pm. To enter the competition, send an email to ava@run-riot.com with the correct answer in the ‘subject’ line. The winner will be randomly selected.

Q: Charles Barry Jr’s Great Eastern Hotel, now known at the Andaz Liverpool Street, is packed full of history: The hotel originally offered guests the opportunity to bathe in fresh sea water brought in daily by rail, as well as the use of two Masonic temples.

But which iconic gothic novel has its vampire hunter, Abraham Van Helsing, drop by for a stay during his visit to London?

A: .1) Frankenstein .2) Wuthering Heights .3) Dracula .4) Northanger Abbey