Invisible Adversaries is a feature film by Austrian avant garde feminist artist Valie Export.

It's about a woman having a nervous breakdown which manifests itself with delusions that the city is being taken over by aliens. Valie Export is a very important artist and filmmaker who has used performance and expanded cinema throughout her career.

Once associated with the transgressive Vienna Actionist movement, recently she curated Austria's pavilion at the Venice Bienale.

The Glass Delution Season (29 Sept - 3 Oct)

‘The Glass Delusion’ is an artists’ film programme organised in association with the National Glass Centre (in Sunderland), to coincide with the exhibition of the same name (until the 3rd of October).

‘The Glass Delusion’ was the name given in the late Middle Ages and Baroque times to a form of depression. The syndrome evokes a psychological separation between reality and imagination. Sufferers were obsessive, compulsive, driven by irrational fears and envisioned themselves to be made of glass, hence delicate and vulnerable to scrutiny.

The events at the Star and Shadow feature artists who use film to investigate altered mental states. All three nights are absorbing experimental excursions into the potential of film for psychological exploration.

3 nights programmed:

Wed 29 Sept, 7.30pm: Film: Sally Golding and Kerry Laitala

Thu 30 Sept, 8pm: Film: Paul Sharits (1966 - 1976)

Sun 3 October, 7.30pm: Film: Invisible Adversaries (1976)