Double Bill 3

On Purpose Films

Alongside Arnolfini’s On Purpose: Design Concepts exhibition, we present a season of films which play on its wider themes: the experience economy, altered identities and the theatre of consumption.

Catch a selection of short films that continue to explore the relationship between commerce, design and experience, inserted into the cinema ad reel during this season. Buy one get one free, in other words.

Existenz (15)

Sun 26 Oct, 3.30pm

£5.50 / £4.00 concs

Cronenberg has long been fascinated by the ways new technology shapes and manipulates human perception and the physical world. In this futuristic thriller, a designer creates a game that can be downloaded straight into the central nervous system.

Dir. Dir. David Cronenberg USA 1999 1h 36m

The Truman Show (PG)

Sun 26 Oct, 5.30pm

Truman Burbank’s struggle to assert control over his own manufactured life in a vast television studio, where everyone but the eponymous hero is an actor, is brilliantly conceived in a film crafted with rare and immaculate precision. Dir.

Dir. Peter Weir USA 1998 1h 43m

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