Hold onto your grocery bags girls! Polish art house film director, Andrzej Żuławski, brings us 1981’s psycho thriller Possession. Isabelle Adjani uses her character Anna to blur the lines between body horror and grindhouse performance art. Set in West Berlin, the film centers around a housewife (Adjani) who wants a divorce from her spy husband Mark (Sam Neill). Mark tries to understand Anna's reasons for the divorce, but instead falls into her demonic gory world. The story (written by Żuławski after his divorce)  is fraught with themes centered around feminine aura both good and evil.

As a graduate student-run film collective based in the Department of Art & Art History, Cinematheque advances a dynamic programming effort of film and video for the greater Stanford community. Cinematheque aims to serve as a generative hub of ongoing discovery for current students thinking about film and media across the University as well as a connective link between the University and the broader regional film culture. Please visit us in the 115 screening room on Sundays at 7!

VISITOR INFORMATION: Room 115 is located in the McMurtry Building on Stanford campus at 355 Roth Way. Visitor parking is available in designated areas and payment is managed through ParkMobile (free after 4pm, except by the Oval). Alternatively, take the Caltrain to Palo Alto Transit Center and hop on the free Stanford Marguerite Shuttle. If you need a disability-related accommodation or wheelchair access information, please contact Julianne Garcia at juggarci@stanford.edu. This screening event is open to Stanford affiliates only.

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