GISC Screening. Halaloween: A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night
1h 41 min. Directed by Ana Lily Amirpour, USA, 2014
Tuesday, October 1, 2019
9:00-11:59 PM
Off Campus Location
On October 1st, 2019, A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night will be the first film to launch our Muslim Horror Film Festival: Halaloween.
This film festival aims to explore a couple of questions: What scares Muslim audiences? How do horror movies conceived for a Muslim public transform the familiar tropes that Hollywood and Hammer horror taught us? How do Muslim directors of horror movies use the genre to ask probing questions about gender and family tensions, social injustice and political oppression, demographic change and social unrest? Are horror movies halal (permissible in Islamic law)? Why so many jinn - and where are the Muslim zombies?
Join us at 9:00 PM at the Michigan Theater on October 1st, and every Tuesday of October for a free screening of a Muslim horror film. All Screenings are free, open to the public, and will include English subtitles. Screenings are first come-first served. For more information on our festival, why we're running it, and the other films we are screening, please visit: ii.umich.edu/islamicstudies/news-events/events/films.html
Film Description:
October 1: A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (dir. Ana Lily Amirpour; USA, 2015): This film festival favorite was shot in Persian in the San Joaquin Valley, in brooding and beautiful black & white. It is often (accurately) described as a Western-vampire-noir. Gender revenge themes and mild violence. In Persian with English subtitles.
This film festival aims to explore a couple of questions: What scares Muslim audiences? How do horror movies conceived for a Muslim public transform the familiar tropes that Hollywood and Hammer horror taught us? How do Muslim directors of horror movies use the genre to ask probing questions about gender and family tensions, social injustice and political oppression, demographic change and social unrest? Are horror movies halal (permissible in Islamic law)? Why so many jinn - and where are the Muslim zombies?
Join us at 9:00 PM at the Michigan Theater on October 1st, and every Tuesday of October for a free screening of a Muslim horror film. All Screenings are free, open to the public, and will include English subtitles. Screenings are first come-first served. For more information on our festival, why we're running it, and the other films we are screening, please visit: ii.umich.edu/islamicstudies/news-events/events/films.html
Film Description:
October 1: A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (dir. Ana Lily Amirpour; USA, 2015): This film festival favorite was shot in Persian in the San Joaquin Valley, in brooding and beautiful black & white. It is often (accurately) described as a Western-vampire-noir. Gender revenge themes and mild violence. In Persian with English subtitles.
| Building: | Off Campus Location |
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| Location: | The Michigan Theater, 603 E Liberty St, Ann Arbor, MI 48104 |
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| Event Type: | Film Screening |
| Tags: | Festival, Film, Halaloween, Middle East Studies |
| Source: | Happening @ Michigan from Global Islamic Studies Center, Department of Middle East Studies, International Institute, Department of Film, Television, and Media |
The Global Islamic Studies Center organizes a number of public events each year such as lectures, conferences, and films, many in collaboration with other U-M units. Please use our searchable events calendar for information about upcoming programs sponsored by GISC and the Interdisciplinary Islamic Studies Seminar (IISS).
