Scalpel Summer Presents: The Unknown Man of Shandigor
@ International Museum of Surgical Science
1524 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Thursday, August 20th, from 6:30PM - 9PM
Experience cinema’s most delirious visions of 20th century medical obsession in one of Chicago’s most unique locations!
This summer, the International Museum of Surgical Science and Stephanie Sack present SCALPEL SUMMER, a three-film screening series exploring surgery, science, and bodily transformation through some of cinema’s most delirious visions of 20th century medical obsession.
SCALPEL SUMMER concludes on August 20 with Jean-Louis Roy’s The Unknown Man of Shandigor, a restored Swiss Cold War fever dream of mad scientists, mod assassins, nuclear secrets, and Serge Gainsbourg menace. At the center of the film is Herbert Von Krantz, a scientist of dubious mental stability who has invented a device capable of sterilizing and therefore neutralizing atomic weapons — a discovery that makes him the target of international spies, trench-coat clad killers, and a crooning Serge Gainsbourg. Set in an uncanny world of candlelit laboratories, surgical paranoia, and atomic dread, Shandigor transforms the 60s spy spoof film into a mad-science miasma.
$15 GA Presale: Admission to either 7/23 or 8/20 screening
$10 Student Presale (Use code STUDENT at checkout)
$10 IMSS Member Presale (Use code IMSSMEMBER at checkout)
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$20 at Door
$15 Student & IMSS Member at Door
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Tags: Chicago, International Museum of Surgical Science, Near North Side, SCALPEL SUMMER, Stephanie Sack
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