Music and movies combine in Smithfield next month. Friend of the Light House Cinema Emmy Shigeta will be on hand to DJ a set at their bar after a screening of the cult classic body horror Tetsuo: The Iron Man on Saturday 28th September.
Emmy Shigeta is a Japanese DJ based in Dublin whose love for music developed while working in a Record Store and cinema in Tokyo. She loves to play ambient, sound tracks, Japanese city pop & the latest underground j-pop. Frequently found in Fidelity, Shigeta is also a fixture across the road at the Light House, and has previously DJ’d a screening of Lost In Translation at the Smithfield cinema.
Some chilled out tunes will be just the ticket after the horrors of Shinya Tsukamoto’s creepy classic. In The Iron Man (world’s away from RDJ snark or Superman-loving robots), a strange man known only as the “Metal Fetishist”, who seems to have an insane compulsion to stick scrap metal into his body, is hit and possibly killed by a Japanese salaryman, out for a drive with his girlfriend. The salaryman then notices that he is being slowly overtaken by some kind of disease that is turning his body into scrap metal, and that his nemesis is not in fact dead but is somehow masterminding and guiding his rage and frustration-fueled transformation.
Surreal and psycho-sexual, the first feature by Tsukamoto is one of the defining Japanese films of the late 80s, of a piece with Akira, or the works of David Cronenberg, but very much all its own thing. The film will be showing at 9pm on Saturday 28th September, and tickets are available from the Light House now.