vidéo-club — Hex and the City
The program Hex and the City : Two Dark Stories for Halloween brings together Shelly Silver's The Houses That Are Left and Lysanne Thibodeau's Bad Blood for the Vampyr.
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List of works in program
It is the story of mortality, murder, market research, revenge and the supernatural, as two friends come together to try to figure out how to live, while being besieged by malignant messages from the dead. Combining the use of black and white film, color video, and dramatic, comedic and documentary methods of shooting, The Houses That Are Left takes an approach to narrative in which the task of sorting out truth from fiction, and documentary from situation comedy, leads to an expanded form in which the dead can speak to the living and people on the street can talk to fictional characters.
Berlin-Mitte, 1980s. A vampire roams the city, trapped in an existence he cannot escape. Immune to crucifixes, unaffected by daylight, he is cursed — not by his nature, but by his inability to die. Yet he refuses to give up his search for an end to eternity. Until one day, hope takes an unexpected form… Bad Blood for the Vampyr is a tribute to the films of Carl Dreyer, Russ Meyer, Andy Warhol, and Ed Wood.
Hex and the City was assembled by Vidéographe's team and was presented on October 28th, 2025 as part of the vidéo-club series, a Vidéographe initiative in collaboration with Cinéma Moderne. Every three months, Vidéographe invites cinephiles and the cine-curious to an evening of screening and discussion around a program drawn from works in the collection.
