THE LONG TAKE FILM CLUB | MARCH DOUBLE FEATURE

THE LONG TAKE FILM CLUB

Films worth thinking about. People worth talking to. Monthly.

We screen standout cinema you won’t find elsewhere, then discuss it properly over beer and pizza. Curated by film curator and critic Deniz Sertkol and François Smit—who’ve spent their careers finding films that matter.

Not film theory. Just films that deserve your full attention, and conversations with people who give them exactly that. Monthly screenings for members and friends at The Bioscope.

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On March 25, The Long Take Film Club returns with a spellbinding  double bill that drifts between desire and darkness, intimacy and myth. Bring a bulb of garlic and someone to kiss.

At once sensual, melancholic, and quietly radical, the Oscar- nominated short by artist turned filmmakers Natalie Musteata and Alexandre Singh Two People Exchanging Saliva unfolds in a surreal, tightly controlled society where kissing is punishable by death and people pay for goods by receiving slaps to the face. Angine, an unhappy woman, shops compulsively in a department store, moving through aisles of sanctioned consumption and suppressed longing. There, she becomes infatuated with a playful salesgirl. Despite the prohibition of kissing, the two grow close — their tentative intimacy raising the suspicions of a jealous colleague. Through long takes and tactile black-and-white imagery, the film lingers on the textures of desire under surveillance, turning rebellion into something as small — and explosive — as a kiss.

Paired with it is A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, the luminous debut by Ana Lily Amirpour. A vampire Western set in the ghostly margins of an imagined Iranian town, Amirpour’s film glides between menace and romance, feminism and fairy tale. Shot in hypnotic monochrome, it follows a chador-clad vampire who stalks the night streets — not as victim, but as avenger and unlikely romantic.

Across different geographies and genres, the films share a devotion to black-and-white and a fascination with desire shaped by danger. One stages intimacy as quiet insurrection within a punitive social order -  the other turns nocturnal solitude into a space of eerie empowerment. As for their shared ingredient: garlic. Consider it the evening’s unofficial sponsor — a humble bulb that reminds us that in stories ruled by kisses and bites, flavour and fatal attraction are only a breath apart.

Join us on March 25 for an evening of slow cinema, nocturnal longing, and images that stay when everything else has faded. The Long Take Film Club invites you to sit with the moment — and let it look back at you.

After the screening cold beers. Pizza. Real conversation about what we’ve witnessed—the politics of touch, the rebellion of wanting, and the power of unapologetic cinema.

19.00 Two People Exchanging Saliva by Natalie Musteata and Alexandre Singh, 2024 (36 min)

Break

19.45 A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night Ana Lily Amirpour, 2014 (101 min)