Art Hub Film Club is back. This time around, we invite you to take a trip to the scary side of things through four different film programs, curated by Søren Thilo Funder (DK), Aaron Moulton (US), Emilie Alstrup (DK), and Klara Hobza (CZ).

The various film programs respond to the overarching theme Into the Dark We Enter and will explore horror aesthetics in the context of a present that is embedded in horror: The horror of war, the horror of climate change, the horror of economic power, and the horror of political persecution.

In other words, this season’s film club takes horror seriously as a relevant and critical form of contemporary cultural expression. That said, the programs do intend to make you shiver and scream.

Into the Dark We Enter is conceptualized and produced by Jacob Lillemose for AHC.

The dates for this season:

7 November 2024 /// 19:00 – 21:00 /// curated by artist Søren Thilo Funder

5 December 2024 /// 19:00 – 21:00 /// curated by Aaron Moulton, Head of Exhibitions and Special Projects at Creator Projects

23 January 2025 /// 19:00 – 21:00 /// curated by artist Emilie Alstrup

27 February 2025 /// 19:00 – 21:00 /// curated by artist Klara Hobza

See specific details for the next upcoming show below.

About Art Hub Film Club

Art Hub Copenhagen works to share knowledge of various forms of visual art practice: for example, by creating new, experimental contexts that can help nuance the multifaceted nature of contemporary art. Art Hub Film Club casts a spotlight on film, video and the moving image, and on the essential role these media play in contemporary art.

Art Hub Film Club Part II
featuring Aaron Moulton: Summoning the Boogeyman

5 December 2024, 19:00 – 21:00

Curated by Aaron Moulton, Head of Exhibitions and Special Projects at Creator Projects.

For the duration of exactly one calendar year, curator and anthropologist Aaron Moulton invoked a ritual known as the Trito Ursitori. Functioning as an experiment in exhibition-making that was part experiential anthropology and part superstitious ritual, this occult system brought together a vast array of objects and individuals and used the exhibition as an altar and a space for ritual. The energy, practices and cultural output of each invocation represent the very essence of core archetypes pulsing through cultures and across time – The Mythical Pattern. The trinity consisted of the embodiments of three absolutes: evil or darkness, light or supreme energy, and the enlightened choice between the two - the revelation of the sacred. The overall ceremony was conducted with rituals both ancient and esoteric connected to earth, flesh, light, gold, fire, air, salt and water. The resulting rebis challenges the nature of cultural value, aura and spirituality by channeling energies that have defined religion, civilization and dualism at large.

Through artist films and masterful ceremony, this event will tell the story of Omul Negru, of evil, of darkness and of the faces we so desperately want to give it. It will confront our supremacist desire to see ourselves as good through demonizing others and massage our universal potential to commit the darkest actions at any given moment.

Films by: 

Sara Bezovsek, Church of Euthanasia, Constant Dullaart, Brock Enright, Dana Greenleaf, Corporate Kafka, Mike Z. Morrell, Alban Muja, Post-America, Jon Rafman, Jak Ritger