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

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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!

shohei imamura:
reflections of the rising sun

2 June - 12 June 2008

One of the most idiosyncratic of filmmakers, Shohei Imamura (1926-2006) preferred to focus on what he saw as peculiarly Japanese elements of society in his films. Sometimes expressing surprise that his films were appreciated overseas, Imamura once stated "I've always wanted to ask questions about the Japanese, because it's the only people I'm qualified to describe”. The films selected for this season were to establish his reputation as a leading figure in the Japanese New Wave and are characterised by their strong willed heroines and dark humour.

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HOGS AND WARSHIPS || THE INSECT WOMAN
UNHOLY DESIRE || THE PORNOGRAPHER

7:30pm Monday 2 June

hogs and warships (18+)

Dir: Shohei Imamura Japan 1961 108mins 16mm
This protest against Japan’s post-war capitulation to American cultural occupation is set amid the criminal world surrounding a US naval base. The Yakuza raise hogs fed on garbage from the base, to supply pork to the navy. Haruko is a young woman determined to escape her fate as a prostitute while her boyfriend Kinta, lacking the same survival instinct, becomes embroiled in a gangland feud.

7:30pm Thursday 5 June

the insect woman (18+)

Dir: Shohei Imamura Japan 1963 123mins 16mm
Set against the socio-political currents of the time, the life of Tome is chronicled from country innocent, to war-time union activist, to maid for a post-war mystical religion, to prostitute and ultimately madam. Her progression is punctuated by entries from her diary, revealing her innermost thoughts, her strengths and frailties.

7:30pm Monday 9 June

UNHOLY DESIRE (18+)

Dir: Shohei Imamura Japan 1964 150mins 16mm
Interweaving the past and present, a young woman rebels against her subservience to the patriarchal order after she is raped by an intruder. Brought up in a rigid family system, Sadako rejects the traditional Japanese code that calls for a wife to commit suicide after rape. But her inner strength is tested when the offender returns.

7:30pm Thursday 12 June

the pornographer (18+)

Dir: Shohei Imamura Japan 1966 128mins 16mm
A pornographic filmmaker is both obsessed and disgusted with the lechery of his customers. Yearning to escape from his marginal existence and struggling to meet the needs of his ailing wife, mistress and two stepchildren, he retires to a houseboat to construct the perfect facsimile of a woman. A darkly satirical view of the Japanese psyche during its post-war economic revival.

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