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<div><em>Excuse the short notice but some SA favourites are screening at London's National Film Theatre tonight as part of the excellent Flipside series:</em></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong>THE ART OF EXPLOITATION: ANTONY BALCH NIGHT</strong></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong>BFI Southbank <span style="font-weight: normal;"><strong>Thursday 25th June</strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> - TONIGHT</span></span></strong></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong>NFT1 at 8.15pm</strong></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">As a director, distributor of lurid European horror movies, collaborator with William Burroughs, and cinema manager, Antony Balch distinctively straddled the divide between film art and exploitation. Tonight we celebrate the diverse talents of this key figure in the alternative film scene of the 1960s and 1970s.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>HORROR HOSPITAL</strong></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>UK 1973. Dir. Antony Balch. 91 mins.</strong></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Groovy pop songster Jason Jones – chirpily played by Britain’s first man of saucy sex comedy, Robin Askwith – gets a whole lot more than he bargained for when he books a stay at a strange ‘health hotel’ in the country. Manhandled by leather-clad biker boys, and subjected to Frederick the dwarf’s cruel taunts, Jason – accompanied by the beautiful Julie - slowly learns the awful plan of sinister Dr Storm (Michael Gough, in his finest mad-scientist mode). Intelligent and rich with cinematic parody, this blood-spattered black comedy somehow works both as genre horror film and experimental spoof. </span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>TOWERS OPEN FIRE</strong></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>UK 1963 Dir Antony Balch 11mins</strong></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This vibrant mix of exotic symbols and playful violence vividly illustrates William Burroughs’ cut-up novels - and features the resonantly-voiced beat author in a starring role, too.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>KRONHAUSEN’S PSYCHOMONTAGE</strong></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>UK 1963 Dir Eberhardt and Phylis Kronhausen 9mins</strong></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Balch contributed footage to this bizarre, extremely rare psychiatric test film. Strange noises – many emanating from agitated monkeys - mesh with images of women frolicking with dogs, probing insects and a human tongue to increasingly uncanny effect. </span></div>
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