Join us for a screening of rare mondo film Naked England (Inghilterra Nuda) by Vittorio De Sisti with live translation !
Doors Open 7pm
Tickets £8 advance and £10 on the door
A screening of Naked England aka Inghilterra Nuda, 1969
Dir Vittorio De Sisti 87min [R: 18+]
(with a live translation of the original Italian soundtrack)
Trepanning, hard drugs, naked happenings at the Arts Lab, and a crucifixion on Hampstead Heath. It’s all in Naked England – an extreme UK-shot example of the salacious Mondo Movie pseudo-documentary phenomena, which seedily centres on the capital. Imagine an export–only Primitive London shot four years later, for overseas oglers! This nasty, nihilistic production shines a lurid light on London as seen by an Italian film crew, grubbily gazing on the Big Black Smoke as the swinging decade went past its sell-by date. Like all Mondo, it’s strikingly shot, frequently tactless, thoroughly tasteless and – be warned - extremely likely to offend. Much of it, as you’d expect, is entirely made-up. This obtuse, ideologically-suspect and exceedingly ecchy-exploitation film will be presented from a video copy with Japanese subtitles. The Italian narration will be translated live!
Don't miss this rare chance to see a startlingly strange and sordid film: this bleak, bizarre eulogy for a city that might once have been, but more likely never was.
Plus also showing:
a selection of seedy, sensational British Mondo trailers and the weird and wonderful, James Mason-fronted The London That Nobody Knows (1969, 45mins).