THE MERCURY CINEMA

The Mercury and Iris Cinemas are run by the Media Resource Centre to enhance screen culture and to give screening opportunities to emerging South Australian film, video and digital media artists.

Cinemas are also available for hire. For more information CLICK HERE.

CONTACT
Operations Manager, Jeremy Chance e-mail

Exhibition Manager, Toby Bramwell e-mail
Ph. (08) 8410 0979

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TICKET SALES

Call 8410 0979 9-5:30 Mon to Fri with you credit Card handy.
Call into the MRC 13 Morphett St Adelaide (behind the Mercury) 8-5:30 Mon-Fri
Buy tickets at the box office from one hour prior to the advertised screening time.

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MERCURY for hire

The Mercury and Iris Cinemas are available for hire. We offer highly competitive rates for your screening, conference, lecture or party. We can screen just about anything from 35mm CinemaScope to your Powerpoint or web based presentation. AND we can look after your catering and liquor requirements with the minimum of fuss!

DAVID CRONENBERG: LONG LIVE THE NEW FLESH

25 June - 2 July

Able to elicit unease in his audience with cold, clinical precision, David Cronenberg (b.1943) is the master of body horror, which draws on the audience’s fears of bodily corruption and transformation to other states of being. Fusing both psychological and physiological concerns to contrast their subjective and objective realities, even his earliest genre flicks are more cerebral than most films with loftier pretensions. His career has met with increasing critical success, leading to a loyal cult following and art-house respectability.

SHIVERS || VIDEODROME
SPIDER

7:30pm Thursday 25 June

SHIVERS (r18+)

Dir: David Cronenberg Canada 1975 87mins 35mm
Gruesome and intelligent, this early work from Cronenberg contains plenty of shocks and many of the themes of bodily transformation that can be found in his later films. A series of murders in a modern apartment building reveal a bizarre parasite that takes control of its host and causes uncontrollable sexual desire. A clever take on venereal disease and the shallowness of a consumerist society. Stars Barbara Steele.

7:30pm Monday 29 June

VIDEODROME (R18+)

Dir: David Cronenberg Canada 1983 87mins 35mm
In his endless search for fresh content, the president of a sleazy UHF station CIVIC-TV stumbles across transmissions of a sadistic new show called Videodrome and tries to purchase the broadcast rights. After receiving a videotape from Professor Brian O’Blivion, who only communicates through television, Max begins hallucinating graphic acts of violence and metamorphosis that betray the weakness of the human flesh. Stars James Woods and Deborah Harry.

Listed in 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die

7:30pm Thursday 2 July

SPIDER (MA15+)

Dir: David Cronenberg Canada/UK 2002 98mins 35mm
This slowly paced and rarely seen film from Cronenberg delves deeply into human psychosis, as a disturbed man known as Spider revisits his childhood haunts in East End London convinced that his mother was brutally murdered by his father and replaced with a prostitute. Spider’s attempts to sustain his delusional account of the past begin to unravel as he descends into fresh madness. Stars Ralph Fiennes, Lynn Redgrave, Miranda Richardson and Gabriel Byrne.