ALGOL, A TRAGEDY OF POWER (1920) w/ Pipe Organ Soundtrack by Jeff Rapsis!
Fri, Jul 25
|Epsilon Spires
This rediscovered Weimar silent offers a dystopian vision of unfettered capitalism that is eerily contemporary! A coal miner makes a Faustian pact with an alien who teaches him how to harness the energy of his home star to become the most powerful man on earth. Live musical score on our Estey organ!
Time & Location
Jul 25, 2025, 7:30 PM – 9:45 PM
Epsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USA
About the event
Doors 7:30pm, Show begins 8pm. Tickets by Sliding-Scale $10-20.
Algol - Tragödie der macht (Tragedy of Power). (1920. Germany. Directed by Hans Werckmeister. 103 min).
Digital restoration courtesy of the Munich Film Museum. Silent; with live improvised soundtrack performed on our historic Estey pipe organ by Jeff Rapsis!
"The rule of coal is gone. The bios plants will provide power to the world from today!"
In this rediscovery of Weimar cinema starring Emil Jannings, a dystopian vision of unfettered capitalism that is eerily contemporary, a coal miner makes a Faustian pact with the otherworldly Algol, an alien who teaches him how to harness the energy of his home star and become the most powerful man on earth. Together they become megalomaniacal CEOs of the "Bios-Werke," lording over the nations of the world by monopolizing renewable energy and by turning workers into slaves. Sets for the movie were constructed by Walter…