Beasts of the Southern Wild - Sunday 4th November

"Benh Zeitlin's debut feature is part film, part hallucination: a ripe and gamey piece of what you might call Apocalyptic Southern Gothic, ambitious and flawed but sprinting with energy. It's set at the time of the Katrina catastrophe – though it could as well be happening hundreds of years in the future, when much-prophecied climate calamities have come to pass. At other times it looks like some sort of modern-dress re-enactment of the distant biblical flood."

--Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

At the Cardiff sciSCREEN event (Sunday 4th November), sponsored by the British Science Association, Cardiff University academics will relate the film to ideas about climate change, flooding and risk, apocalyptic narratives, and the resurrection of extinct species.

The film starts at 5.30pm, with the sciSCREEN discussion beginning at 7.15pm. Please remember, the sciSCREEN discussion is now a ticketed event—tickets are free and can be reserved by ringing the box office at Chapter on 02920 304400. Capacity for this event's sciSCREEN discussion is limited to 40.