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Double Bill 4

On Purpose Films

Alongside Arnolfini’s On Purpose: Design Concepts exhibition, we present a season of films which play on its wider themes: the experience economy, altered identities and the theatre of consumption.

Catch a selection of short films that continue to explore the relationship between commerce, design and experience, inserted into the cinema ad reel during this season. Buy one get one free, in other words.

Westworld (15)

Sun 2 Nov, 3.30pm

£5.50 / £4.00 concs

A holiday resort offers punters the ultimate licence to abuse mechanical actors in realistic robot worlds recreating ancient Rome, a medieval chateau, or a gun slinging frontier town. But the machines, led by Yul Brynner’s iconic badlands avenger prove increasingly unwilling to play along.

Dir. Michael Crichton USA 1973 1h 28m

Punishment Park (18)

Sun 2 Nov, 5.30pm

In an imagined world all too close to reality, draft-dodging radicals are given a stark choice: go to prison or spend three days in Punishment Park. This dystopian nightmare still grips,imagining hippies and radicals getting used for target practice in an eerie, if hysterical, prefiguring of modern reality TV.

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Dir. Peter Watkins USA 1971 1h 29m

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