Deux fois, dir. Jackie Raynal, US 1968, 66 min.
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A double bill of films that double.
Barbara Rubin’s underground classic Christmas on Earth (1963) possesses a spirit of riotous, orgiastic anarchism. Made when Rubin was still a teenager and inspired by Jack Smith’s Flaming Creatures, this sexually explicit work sought to challenge the social mores of its time – an attitude captured in its working title, “Cocks and Cunts.” Christmas on Earth is a double 16mm projection that incorporates live performative elements, such as the use of coloured gels and a radio soundtrack, to create a singular and spectacular cinematic experience.
Deux fois (1968) is the directorial debut of Jackie Raynal, a figure renowned not only as a filmmaker, but equally for her work as Éric Rohmer’s editor and as a programmer at New York’s Bleecker Street Cinema. Made under the umbrella of the Zanzibar Group, with the patronage of Sylvina Boissonnas, Deux fois deconstructs cinematic conventions through a series of discrete episodes. In the words of Noël Burch, the film is "an intentionally elementary meditation on certain primary functions of film, that could be said to be at the roots of film editing as such – expectations, exploring the picture, perceptual memory, relationships between on-screen and off-screen space – all explored in a series of free-standing sequence shots of perfect simplicity."
Programme
Barbara Rubin, Christmas on Earth (1963), double 16mm projection, 29 min.
Jackie Raynal, Deux fois (1968), DCP, 66 min.
Barbara Rubin’s underground classic Christmas on Earth (1963) possesses a spirit of riotous, orgiastic anarchism. Made when Rubin was still a teenager and inspired by Jack Smith’s Flaming Creatures, this sexually explicit work sought to challenge the social mores of its time – an attitude captured in its working title, “Cocks and Cunts.” Christmas on Earth is a double 16mm projection that incorporates live performative elements, such as the use of coloured gels and a radio soundtrack, to create a singular and spectacular cinematic experience.
Deux fois (1968) is the directorial debut of Jackie Raynal, a figure renowned not only as a filmmaker, but equally for her work as Éric Rohmer’s editor and as a programmer at New York’s Bleecker Street Cinema. Made under the umbrella of the Zanzibar Group, with the patronage of Sylvina Boissonnas, Deux fois deconstructs cinematic conventions through a series of discrete episodes. In the words of Noël Burch, the film is "an intentionally elementary meditation on certain primary functions of film, that could be said to be at the roots of film editing as such – expectations, exploring the picture, perceptual memory, relationships between on-screen and off-screen space – all explored in a series of free-standing sequence shots of perfect simplicity."
Programme
Barbara Rubin, Christmas on Earth (1963), double 16mm projection, 29 min.
Jackie Raynal, Deux fois (1968), DCP, 66 min.
The Machine That Kills Bad People is, of course, the cinema – a medium that is so often and so visibly in service of a crushing status quo but which, in the right hands, is a fatal instrument of beauty, contestation, wonder, politics, poetry, new visions, testimonies, histories, dreams. It is also a film club devoted to showing work – ‘mainstream’ and experimental, known and unknown, historical and contemporary – that takes up this task. The group borrowed their name from the Roberto Rossellini film of the same title, and find inspiration in the eclectic juxtapositions of Amos Vogel’s groundbreaking New York film society Cinema 16.
The Machine That Kills Bad People is held bi-monthly in the ICA Cinema and is programmed by Erika Balsom, Beatrice Gibson, Maria Palacios Cruz, and Ben Rivers.
The Machine That Kills Bad People is held bi-monthly in the ICA Cinema and is programmed by Erika Balsom, Beatrice Gibson, Maria Palacios Cruz, and Ben Rivers.
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06:30 pm
Tue, 13 Jan 2026
Cinema 1
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