Name: NISF X LUMI: Tetsuo: The Iron Man
Start: 2026-02-18T21:00:00+00:00
Location: Queen's Film Theatre, Belfast

An out-of-this-world nightmare birthed from metal and flesh, Shin'ya Tsukamoto's cult horror classic frenetically rejects the drudgery of so-called normal life.
A strange man known only as the "metal fetishist", who seems to have an insane compulsion to stick scrap metal into his body, is hit and possibly killed by a Japanese "salaryman", out for a drive with his girlfriend. The salaryman then notices that he is being slowly overtaken by some kind of disease that is turning his body into scrap metal, and that his nemesis is not in fact dead but is somehow masterminding and guiding his rage and frustration-fueled transformation.
Screening as part of NI Science Festival. Established in 2014, NI Science Festival has grown to become the largest celebration of its kind on the island of Ireland and in its relatively short lifespan became one of the leading Science Festivals in the whole of Europe.