Existenz

Friday, March 7 - Saturday, March 15, 2025

When leading game designer Allegra Geller (Jennifer Jason Leigh) is attacked by an assassin while conducting a focus group for her new virtual-reality game eXistenZ, she escapes into the game with marketing trainee Ted Pikul (Jude Law). Cronenberg is at his squirm-inducing, orifice-fetishizing best here, with great supporting turns from Ian Holm, Willem Dafoe and Sarah Polley.

Screening as part of our midnight series Waverly Midnights: Games People Play

• Country Canada, UK
• Year 1999
• Running Time 97 minutes
• Format DCP
• Distributor Paramount Pictures
• Director David Cronenberg
• Cast Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jude Law, Ian Holm, Don McKellar, Callum Keith Rennie, Sarah Polley, Robert A. Silverman, Christopher Eccleston, Willem Dafoe
• Accessibility Assistive Listening, T-Coil

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