Directed by:
Peter StricklandScreenplay:
Peter StricklandCinematography:
Ari WegnerComposer:
Cavern of Anti-MatterCast:
Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Hayley Squires, Leo Bill, Fatma Mohamed, Gwendoline Christie, Julian Barratt, Richard Bremmer, Jaygann Ayeh, Sidse Babett Knudsen (more)VOD (4)
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Obliquely split between two distinct tales in a dreamy divide reminiscent of David Lynch's Lost Highway, Strickland's film is populated with an idiosyncratic array of indelible characters and imagery. From a lonely divorcee to the wife of a washing machine repairman with a thousand-yard stare, dissatisfied souls float through a mesmerizing miasma of surreal sights and sounds, sporadically punctuated with bursts of disorienting collage-montage evoking the experimental works of Arthur Lipsett. Pervading each thread is the witchy sales-matron (Fatma Mohamed) of the demonic department store, who speaks to her clientele in a cryptic verse to mask her dark designs, and an eccentric pair of bureaucrats hilariously portrayed by cult-favourite actors Steve Oram and Julian Barratt. Further bolstered by an entrancing cast that includes Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Gwendoline Christie, to say nothing of the villainous dress itself — which hauntingly sails towards its victims with an eerie glide that flirts with both camp and genuine menace — In Fabric is an absorbing synthesis of the exquisite pastiche Strickland achieved with Berberian Sound Studio and the erotic romanticism of his The Duke of Burgundy, here hemmed to sinister effect. (Toronto International Film Festival)
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In Fabric
Label: Duophonic UHF Disks
Year: 2020
Format: digital
Length: 01:54:26
1. | High Street Spasm | Cavern of Anti-Matter | 01:46 |
2. | The Dress Perspective (demonstration) | Cavern of Anti-Matter | 02:07 |
3. | January-Upon-Thames | Cavern of Anti-Matter | 00:57 |
4. | An Ambiguous Shopfloor Manoeuvre | Cavern of Anti-Matter | 01:19 |
5. | Cold Fabric (Transformation) | Cavern of Anti-Matter | 13:07 |
6. | Inside Luckmoore | Cavern of Anti-Matter | 04:39 |
7. | Mannequin Metric | Cavern of Anti-Matter | 04:14 |
8. | Queue Nightfall | Cavern of Anti-Matter | 11:02 |
9. | The Dress Perspective (Muzak) | Cavern of Anti-Matter | 02:06 |
10. | Elektro-Modulator 2 | Cavern of Anti-Matter | 02:10 |
11. | Taktron Delay | Cavern of Anti-Matter | 01:15 |
12. | Cold Fabric (Incantation) | Cavern of Anti-Matter | 08:39 |
13. | The Mediterranean-Upon-Thames | Cavern of Anti-Matter | 00:59 |
14. | Winter Rhombic | Cavern of Anti-Matter | 01:38 |
15. | Clutch Assembly Tone | Cavern of Anti-Matter | 03:04 |
16. | ZinZan's Avec Moi | Cavern of Anti-Matter | 03:18 |
17. | Speaks Machine | Cavern of Anti-Matter | 04:26 |
18. | Terminal Wigwag | Cavern of Anti-Matter | 05:59 |
19. | Night Fabric | Cavern of Anti-Matter | 02:47 |
20. | Staverton's Loss | Cavern of Anti-Matter | 02:28 |
21. | Elektro-Agitator 2 | Cavern of Anti-Matter | 00:28 |
22. | Terminal Metric | Cavern of Anti-Matter | 04:18 |
23. | Metric 36 | Cavern of Anti-Matter | 02:47 |
24. | The Retail Idea | Cavern of Anti-Matter | 00:32 |
25. | The Dress Perspective | Cavern of Anti-Matter | 01:10 |
26. | Cold Fabric (Descent) | Cavern of Anti-Matter | 03:01 |
27. | Coven Metric | Cavern of Anti-Matter | 01:33 |
28. | Taktron Decay | Cavern of Anti-Matter | 01:15 |
29. | An Ambiguous Shopfloor Manoeuvre (Spanish) | Cavern of Anti-Matter | 05:08 |
30. | Terminal Wigwag (Bananas) | Cavern of Anti-Matter | 01:29 |
31. | Perimeter Display | Cavern of Anti-Matter | 01:45 |
32. | Nocturne-Upon-Thames | Cavern of Anti-Matter | 00:58 |
33. | Transmission Mounting Bolt | Cavern of Anti-Matter | 04:19 |
34. | EN-54 (Branch Circuit) | Cavern of Anti-Matter | 03:46 |
35. | Mannequin Mass | Cavern of Anti-Matter | 03:57 |