A Bright Light: Karen Dalton and the Process
Fri, Feb 12
|Virtual Theatre
By taking a journey in the footsteps of Karen Dalton, one of the 1960s most iconic folk musicians, worshipped by her peers but still relatively obscure- this unconventional travel documentary investigates the creative process, the frantic and mysterious paths where reality and dreams intersperse...
Time & Location
Feb 12, 2021, 12:00 AM – Feb 27, 2021, 12:00 AM
Virtual Theatre
About the event
A Bright Light: Karen Dalton and The Process (2018). Dir. Emmanuelle Antille. 94 mins. Switzerland.
Virtual Tickets are $5.99 for a 72 hour window.
WATCH: https://www.epsilonspires.org/brightlight
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A formidable folk musician with an otherworldly voice and unprecedented ear for a melody, Karen Dalton was not only Bob Dylan's "Favorite Singer" but was first and foremost a woman in charge of her own destiny, who lived her life in obscurity on the margins of society.
doesn’t try to provide a chronological reconstruction of the life of this extraordinary artist, but rather attempts to channel and communicate essence through the magical medium of film. Director Emmanuelle Antille applies images and excerpts from Dalton's private journal as fleeting traces of an uncertain past: she transforms and questions these artifacts in the hope of extrapolating greater truth. Karen Dalton lived a life delicately balanced between reality and oblivion…