SECRET SIXTEEN: TECHNICOLOR TERRORS
- Sat, Oct 17
Run Time: 720 min. Format: 16mm
35mm can be beautiful, but 16mm is personal. And when it’s a marathon of IB Technicolor 16mm prints, it’s both! Join Secret Sixteen founder Mike Williamson, Josh Miller (Killer Movies) and Bret Berg (Museum of Home Video) for a 12-hour sensorial feast of shockingly saturated colors and bloody night terrors — all screened from Secret Sixteen’s siqq collection of this wonderous format.
With enough decades, any print says bye-bye to its color except for the literal magic of Technicolor. This ancient occult art used 3x the amount of film to conjure 3x the joy in seeing unreal amounts of hues…the kind of shades that physically can’t be created today, as the company discontinued its dark arts in ’75.
Titles aren’t revealed until they unspool onscreen. What we can say is this six-film marathon is soaking in cursed body parts, heavyweight character actors, even heavier cloaks, liminal libraries and haunting hallways, sweaty demonology, boosted bustiers, gorgeous lighting, the walls closing in, wealthy reprobates, moody golems, boundless beliefs, hammy histrionics, masked murderers, meek mod psychopaths, rural isolation, “I killed your friend” vibes, danger, paranoia, bite marks, high fashion and quite a few instances of eye-popping palates matching a 4D printing process to give you an unparalleled moment in time. A pigment of your imagination.