{"id":4133,"date":"2020-11-09T09:59:10","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T09:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/?p=4133"},"modified":"2020-12-01T15:24:02","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T15:24:02","slug":"dr-james-newtons-latest-film-black-lizard-tales-premiers-at-cine-excess-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2020\/11\/09\/dr-james-newtons-latest-film-black-lizard-tales-premiers-at-cine-excess-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr James Newton&#8217;s latest film, Black Lizard Tales, premiers at Cine-Excess Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>School of Arts Lecturer, Dr James Newton&#8217;s latest film, <a href=\"https:\/\/cineexcess.uscreen.io\/programs\/black-lizard-tales-trailer-20201021-mp4-170257\"><em>Black Lizard Tales<\/em><\/a>, premiered at the Cine-Excess Festival on Sunday 8 November.\u00a0<em>Black Lizard Tales<\/em> draws on the traditions of surrealism and iconography associated with European cult cinema of the 1970s in a monochrome, non-linear unfolding of three interconnected horror stories. In the film, a Professor of Psychology with a dark secret, a nun terrified of dying, and a traumatised young woman all come together in this trio of intersecting horror stories. <em>Black Lizard Tales<\/em> features ghostly visions, demon worship, and serial murder set on an English university campus.<\/p>\n<p>Cine-Excess is an annual international film festival and conference, with this year&#8217;s online conference titled, &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/cineexcess.uscreen.io\/\">Representations as Weapons: Cult Film and the Politics of Resistance<\/a>&#8216;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/people\/2149\/newton-james\">James Newton<\/a> was also nominated for Best Director at the Diabolical Horror Film Festival 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>School of Arts Lecturer, Dr James Newton&#8217;s latest film, Black Lizard Tales, premiered at the Cine-Excess Festival on Sunday 8 November.\u00a0Black Lizard Tales draws on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2020\/11\/09\/dr-james-newtons-latest-film-black-lizard-tales-premiers-at-cine-excess-festival\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40592,"featured_media":4135,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1123,168423,124,9111],"tags":[223353,223354,239462],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4133"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40592"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4133"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4194,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4133\/revisions\/4194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}