Transmission 17 · Sunday 25 October · 6 days until Halloween

Rapture (1979)

dir. Iván Zulueta
ENTRY 19:30RITUAL 20:00RUNTIME 115 min

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José Sirgado is a low-budget filmmaker whose heroin addiction distorts his perspective of the real world. Although he is a depressed and unstable individual, his mood improves when he receives the mysterious films of Pedro, with whom he shares his passion for cinema.

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“An absolute modern classic.”
— Pedro Almodóvar
“A hallucinatory, claustrophobic examination of the secret potency of film itself.”
— Time Out
“A moebius strip of filming and being filmed.”
— Radiance Films