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Alien
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Why watch?

“In this talk I want to invite you to close your eyes, pinch your nose, and palpate the dripping, pulsing morass of Ridley Scott’s Alien with me. This phenomenological meditation will turn us inside out, illuminating and expanding upon Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s ontology of the Flesh. I will describe how the experience of body horror exposes an ongoing existential ordeal, confounding questions of individuality and revealing a profoundly ambiguous sense of selfhood. We will thus find ourselves excised from the mythic sanctuary of private subjectivity, provoking an unsettling sense of bodily vulnerability churning deep in our guts.”

Dr Jordan Adshead,

Honorary Associate of Philosophy at Durham University
In space no one can hear you scream... With the new show Alien Earth reminding us what we love about this enduring franchise, we thought what better time to return to where it all started, with a special Philosophy & Film screening of Ridley Scott's 1979 masterpiece. 
Sci-Fi • Cult • Terrifying

Responding to an unknown emergency broadcast, the crew of the Nostromo investigate a desolate planet. But to their horror, and ours, they bring something else back on board with them. Something predatory, terrifying, brutal. But the creature is not the only danger that lurks in the darkness of their ship.

Showing as part of our Philosophy & Film strand, Alien has been selected by Dr. Jordan Adshead and will be followed by a short talk from Jordan, exploring some of the philosophical themes raised. 

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Dr Jordan Adshead is an Honorary Associate of Philosophy at Durham University. He specialises in the intersection between technology and the environment and the impacts of rapid and widespread technological change. Particularly, the varied existential, ontological, and ethical implications.

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Details

Duration
1hr 56mins
Director
Ridley Scott
Distributor
Park Circus
Featuring
Sigourney Weaver • Harry Dean Stanton • John Hurt
Year
1979
Country of origin
US • UK
Language
English
Strobe lighting
Yes
Content guidance
Violence • Bloody violence/gore/torture

“A movie masterpiece... Alien set a new blueprint for sci-fi horror”

Empire

“Scott’s ultimate space horror still pulses with unrelenting tension”

Time Out

“Ridley Scott's masterpiece is lethally contemporary”

The Guardian
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