Peter Barlow's Cigarette presents...

An original feature-length utopian film about queer solidarity, cybernetics and revolutions to come:

Negative Worlds

accompanied by the short prequel film Delinking Genesis

7.00pm, Sunday 7th September, The Carlton Club, Carlton Road, Whalley Range

Free entry, booking advised

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Friends go in search of another world within this one. Then that longed-for future comes calling. A big night out ends up projecting them into the world of 2190. Now everyone must follow their own mission for ‘the Co-Creation’. Eventually, they return to the present, facing up to how these visions could become true.

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"Highly relatable experimental feature in which a Marxist reading group in south London are so upset by the demolition of the Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre that they time travel to a cybernetic communist future in which, as representatives of the by-then mostly destroyed capitalist civilisation, they are considered useful fighters against its scattered remnants. An evidently extremely low budget is belied by beautiful photography of locations ranging from Leeds to Shanghai to Montreal, and while its influences (Marker, Resnais, Keiller, early Cronenberg, regular visits to Books Peckham - and, I think, Carl Neville's two SF novels Resolution Way and Eminent Domain) are not exactly worn lightly, it never feels at all like pastiche, especially with the animation and distortion woven into the deadpan shots of architecture and landscape." - Owen Hatherley

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Edmund Ogawa Hardy is a filmmaker and poet, exploring solidarity, intimacy and collective struggles. He published a book of poetry, Every Cruel Thing (Monitor Books, 2021), and his films have been shown in London, Tokyo and Berlin. Negative Worlds (2024) is his debut feature film and was premiered at Flatline City festival in Tokyo.

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Accessibility info:

There are a small number of steps up to enter the venue; unfortunately they do not currently have ramp access, though they are working to sort it for the future. Once inside, the venue is all level and has accessible toilets. The event will be seated, and some chairs can be moved to accommodate any particular requirements. Children are welcome at our events (though we can't guarantee all material will be child-friendly in content). If you have any questions, or any accessibility requirements not covered here which you would like to discuss with us, please do get in touch, and we'll do everything in our power to accommodate you.