Room Temperature

A film by Dennis Cooper and Zac Farley
(Duration: 1h33)

Screening followed by a discussion between the directors and Théo Casciani

As they do every year for Halloween, a family transforms their property into a haunted house. The father is determined to make the attraction as terrifying as possible, whatever the consequences.

In addition to his film collaborations with Zac Farley, Dennis Cooper (born 1953) is known for cult novels such as the five-part series The George Miles Cycle (1989–2000), The Sluts (2008), The Marbled Swarm (2014) and I Wished (2021). He has also written extensively on art, film, music and literature, and has been a Contributing Editor for Artforum since the late 1990s. After moving from Los Angeles to Paris in 2005, he wrote nine plays for the director and choreographer Gisèle Vienne.

Zac Farley (born 1988) is a Franco-American artist and filmmaker who studied at the California Institute of the Arts and Northwestern University. He co-directed Like Cattle Towards Glow (2015), Permanent Green Light (2018) and Room Temperature (2025), films that have been screened at numerous festivals. He has collaborated with Gisèle Vienne on the Kerstin Kraus project, as well as with Sabrina Tarasoff and Dennis Cooper on a virtual reality haunted house video game presented at the Collection Pinault in Paris in October 2022. He lives in Paris.

Théo Casciani (born in 1995) is a writer. He studied the humanities at Sciences Po and mathematics at the Sorbonne in Paris, before joining La Cambre in Brussels, where he now teaches. Rétine, his first novel, was published by Éditions P.O.L in 2019. His fiction, translated into several languages, has been presented in various forms in France and abroad, notably by the Centre Pompidou, Montez Press, the Fondation Beyeler, Sadie Coles, Spazio Maiocchi and the Louvre Museum. His second novel, Insula, published in January 2026, was awarded the Prix La Perle.

Presented by the Master’s programme in Texts and Literary Creation