THX 1138 – vers:on

DIR: George Lucas, US 1971, 80mins, Sci-fi. WITH: Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasance, Don Pedro Colley, PG cert.

Ulster Hall Group
Wednesday 14th July, 8pm
£3, or £10 for a WeeFT pass

Experienced DJ/VJ team Pete Donaldson and Ed Hughes have rebuilt George Lucas’s first film, THX 1138, with contemporary audio and video tools and are performing it live, retaining the atmosphere and loose narrative of the original.

THX 1138, LUH 3417, and SEN 5241 attempt to escape from a futuristic totalitarian society located beneath the surface of the Earth. The society has outlawed sex, with drugs used to control the people. THX 1138 stops taking the drugs and becomes aware of his social programming and proceeds to challenge his place in the machine that is modern society.

THX 1138 was remade in 1971 and has become a cult hit amongst sci-fi fans.

It was recently re-released as the definitive director’s cut. It is this iconic, classic ‘version’ that Donaldson and Hughes have chosen to de-construct and re-build.