Towner Cine Club: Zabriskie Point

Towner Cine Club is a chance for you to catch classic films back on the big screen, all presented with an introduction by Henry Jordan. Whether it’s arthouse oddities, cult classics, old favourites or new discoveries, we’ll be showing something exciting every month at Towner Cinema.

Henry Jordan works at Towner as a Duty Manager and helps with the day-to-day operations of the cinema, as well as hosting Towner Cine Club. He studied English and Film Studies at University of Exeter, which included a study abroad year that he took at University of South Florida in Tampa, USA. During Henry’s time at university, he discovered his core fields of interest, among them para-cinema, surrealism and anti-literature.

Before Towner, Henry worked at the Arts Picturehouse in Cambridge, where he was a regular host for their sell out quiz nights and hosted a Q&A with Dame Pippa Harris for her film Empire of Light. He also was a regular on the Cambridge Film Show, has been published in The Quietus and still writes for The Quite Nerdy Blog, his blog about pop culture that has been running since 2014.

In Michelangelo Antonioni's portrait of the socio-political tensions of late Sixties America, Anthropology student Daria, who’s helping a property developer build a village in the Los Angeles desert, and dropout Mark, who’s wanted by the authorities for allegedly killing a policeman during a student riot, accidentally encounter each other in Death Valley and soon begin an unrestrained romance.

Programmed alongside Poppy Jones Frozen Sun, a free contemporary exhibition in our ground floor gallery.

"Suggested by Poppy Jones to screen alongside her exhibition, Frozen Sun, our May screening is Zabriskie Point. After depicting the downfall of Britain and the Swinging Sixties in Blow-Up, Antonioni sets his sight on seventies America. Make no mistake, he shoots to kill, in this bitter and beautiful critique of a world that looks eerily close to the America of today."