Give an event a title like The Shivering Eyelash, and you know right away itย’s a little, well, weird. But weirdness is something the folks at the International Experimental Cinema Exposition strive for. To wit, theyย’ve collected several of the most groundbreaking avant-garde films from the past century and packaged them together in a retrospective for screening at Aurora Picture Show. Those featured include 1936ย’s X-Ray Film I: The Alimentary System, a German film by Robert Janker that uses X-rays to follow food from mouth to anus and all stops in between; Jean Genetย’s Un Chant Dย’Amour, a 1950 flick about the fantasies of a gay male prisoner and his warden; Frans Zwartjesย’s 1970 Spectator, about a photographer who becomes obsessed with his long-lashed model; and Paul Bartelย’s 1968 The Secret Cinema, about a woman whose life is being filmed without her knowledge. If you need a little help ย“getting it,ย” curator Christopher May will be in attendance at Saturdayย’s 8 p.m. screening. The Shivering Eyelash also screens at 3 p.m. today. 800 Aurora. For information, call 713-868-2101 or visit www.aurorapictureshow.org. $6

Sat., Sept. 20, 8 p.m.; Sun., Sept. 21, 3 p.m., 2008

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