The Machine That Kills Bad People presents a halloween horror double bill.

This Machine That Kills Bad People screening features two films about women who possess desires to murder men: The Smiling Madame Beudet (1923) by avant-garde filmmaker Germaine Dulac, and A Question of Silence (1982), written and directed by Dutch filmmaker Marleen Gorris.

A double-bill of first films: Chantal Akerman’s first four short films (all 1967) alongside Kelly Reichardt’s debut feature River of Grass (1994) 

This screening brings together two films that confront sexual violence: a 35mm print of Outrage (1950) by Ida Lupino and the UK premiere of Ghost Carnival (1991) by Qiu Miaojin and Lin Hsu Wen-er.

A double-bill screening programmed by the Machine That Kills Bad People featuring The Alcohol Years and You Made Me Love You.

A double bill screening of Kathryn Bigelow’s Blue Steel (1990) and Deborah Stratman’s In Order Not To Be Here (2002) in the regular Machine That Kills Bad People series.

A double bill 16mm programme including rarely screened films by Sumiko Haneda and Martine Rousset.

A double screening of Jeanne Liotta’s Observando el Cielo (Observing the Sky) and Annik Leroy’s In der Dämmerstunde – Berlin (From Dawn to Night – Berlin).

The Machine That Kills Bad People screen Ruth Beckermann’s Paper Bridge and Sylvia Schedelbauer’s Way Fare.

A double bill about the pleasures and perils of female collectivity, with Lizzie Borden in person for an introduction and Q&A.

A double-programme of films by and on filmmaker and novelist Assia Djebar.

A double bill from filmmakers Alice Guy and Ildikó Enyedi.

A double bill of hallucinatory desert landscapes in which past, present, and future converge.

A programme of two films meditating on landscapes and their complex relationship to labour and industry. 

This screening brings together two films of the same name, Anybody’s Woman, from 1930 and 1981. 

A short and a feature in the bi-monthly programme from The Machine the Kills Bad People.

Paris is the site of two films that explore love and alienation in the late 20th century in this double-bill screening.

A double bill of Selbé et tant d’autres (Selbe: One Among Many) and Reassemblage, two counter-ethnographies from the 1980s concerning women's lives in rural Senegal.

Watch the two films planned for next The Machine that Kills Bad People screening for free.