50th Atlanta Film Festival: eXistenZ screening + Violet Lucca "David Cronenberg: Clinical Trials" Book Signing

From the venue:

Plazadrome, The Atlanta Film Festival and A Capella Books present a unique film screening/book signing combo event with author and podcaster Violet Lucca. We’ll be screening David Cronenberg’s eXistenZ (1999) and Lucca will be signing copies of her 2024 book David Cronenberg: Clinical Trials.

12pm: David Cronenberg: Clinical Trials book signing in The Atlanta Film Festival Green Room with books provided by @acappellabooks.

1pm: eXistenZ (1999) film screening followed by a Q&A between Millie De Chirico and Violet Lucca.

Violet Lucca on Cronenberg and eXistenZ:

"Cronenberg’s first original screenplay since Videodrome, eXistenZ’s elliptical, matryoshkalike narrative structure, legitimately exciting action and sex-ish sequences, and ambiguity make it an equally prescient statement on technology."

About Violet Lucca:

Violet Lucca is the author of the book David Cronenberg: Clinical Trials (Abrams, 2024). Lucca was formerly the Vice President of Digital at Harper’s Magazine and, prior to that, served as Digital Producer for Film Comment. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Criterion’s The Current, Art in America, Defector, Discogs, Sight & Sound, Caimán Cuadernos de Cine, Harper’s Magazine online, the Village Voice, and elsewhere.

About the book:

Clinical Trials is a 2024 illustrated monograph by Violet Lucca that offers a deep, Jungian-inspired analysis of the filmmaker's work, arguing he is a misunderstood auteur beyond just "body horror". The book explores recurring themes in Cronenberg's films like The Fly, Videodrome, and Crimes of the Future, blending critical analysis with interviews and illustrations to present a dreamlike exploration of his cinematic universe.