Ganja and Hess
About the event
An anthropologist Dr Hess Green is stabbed with an ancient dagger and develops an insatiable bloodlust. He is soon joined by his wife. Gunn’s film reimagines the vampire genre through a radical Black lens, blending horror, spirituality and social commentary into a dreamlike meditation on race, desire, faith and identity. It’s a singular masterpiece of 1970s American cinema. Screen: NFT2. Screening details: Special screening available.