Midsommar | Talk: A24 - A New Indie Genre Cinema

The American independent entertainment company A24 has won a Best Picture Oscar, returned a stream of box office hits, and yet given a voice to several of the most creative, auteur-minded filmmakers of the last decade. A24 is proving to be that rare phenomenon: a big independent production studio bringing genre and art cinema together.

In this talk, Kim Wilkins and Bruce Isaacs examine A24 through the lens of one of its most original, eccentric, and iconoclastic filmmakers: Ari Aster, writer-director of Hereditary, Midsommar, and Beau is Afraid.

Bruce Isaacs is Associate Professor of Film Studies at the University of Sydney and co-creator of the podcast Film versus Film.

Kim Wilkins is the Head of Screen Cultures at the University of Oslo. She the author of the book American Eccentric Cinema (2019) and co-editor of two editions in Edinburgh University Press' "Refocus" book series The Films of Richard Linklater and The Films of Spike Jonze (2019) as well as numerous essays on Wes Anderson, indie cinema, and American film and television more broadly. 

The talk will be held in English.

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