Item: Colchester Arts Centre Promotional Flyer (Delirium/VideoDrome)

Item No: #028
Description: A standard sheet of A4 printer paper, with text printed on one side containing short descriptions of the two films showing that evening.
Condition: Folded and creased, but otherwise okay
Type: Promotional Material
Materials: Paper
Year: 2016
Production Location: Colchester, UK
Size: H295mm x W210mm

Text:

Colchester Arts Centre presents a trip into the farther reaches of cinema…

Delirium
Screening starts: 7:45pm
Parasites that take over brains. Paranoia and Amnesia controlling the city. A state of emergency. Who is the mysterious person, who controls the parasites and what is her plan? A clockwork of puzzle pieces. Delirium comes from mysterious artist Cosmotropia De Xam, the figure behind witch-house project MATER SUSPIRIA VISION and cult underground label PHANTASMA DISQUES. Expect a decidedly non-linear narrative with a psychotropic and disturbing visual style.
“Tetsuo Meets David Lynch”
Recommended 18+

VIDEODROME
Screening starts: 930:pm approx.
David Cronenbourg’s infamous Body-horror flick. Starring James Woods, Sonja Smits, and singer Deborah Harry, the film is set in Toronto during the early 1980s, following the CEO of a small UHF television station who stumbles upon a broadcast signal featuring extreme violence and torture. The layers of deception and mind-control conspiracy unfold as he uncovers ythe signal’s source and loses touch with reality in a series of increasingly bizarre and violent organic hallucinations.
Cert 18+

*The bar will remain open throughout so please feel free to grab a drink at any point during the films. Mich the Hippie’s legendary veggie chilli also available from the bar for a mere £2 a bowl!*

Notes (2026):

1. David Cronenberg’s name has been spelled wrong (both on the flyer and in the transcript of it above).
2. Any other typos in the transcript are probably my own.