Screening of Robert Wiene's 'The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari' (1920) to explore what horror can teach us about morality.
Conway Hall is screening Robert Wiene's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari on Friday 30 October, as part of a session called Thinking in Frames: Can Fear be Moral?. It's a landmark of German horror from 1920, and the night is built around it.
The session starts with the question 'What can horror teach us about morality?' and uses Caligari as a starting point to look at why the genre keeps complicating our understanding of good and evil. It's not just a screening, then, but a way into that conversation.
There's a bit of a fit between the film and the venue here. Conway Hall, at 25 Red Lion Square in Holborn, is the home of the Ethical Society, one of the oldest surviving freethought organisations in the world. The Art Deco building was built in 1929 and named after the American abolitionist and social reformer Moncure Conway. Its wood-panelled Main Hall hosts the UK's longest-running chamber music series, and the building also houses the Humanist Library and Archives, a collection documenting the history of secularism and rational thought in Britain.
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It runs from 6:30pm to 8:30pm, so it's an early evening one. Tickets are £12.
