Since its publication 200 years ago, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has influenced vast swathes of popular culture. Adaptations have starred cinema legends from Boris Karloff to Robert De Niro – and even Alvin and the Chipmunks. From tales of science gone mad (Jurassic Park) to stories of understanding the other (ET, The Hulk, Arrival), traces of the story and its themes have spread across our media.
Frankenstein Re-membered collects these diverse fragments from the birth of cinema until the present day and in the tradition of Victor Frankenstein himself, attempts to stitch them back together into an adaptation of the original Shelley novel.
11am, 18th November at Dundee Contemporary Arts. The screening is free, but tickets must be booked: http://www.dca.org.uk/whats-on/event/being-human-frankenstein-re-membered
Chris Gerrard: FILM AND ART 