BEGOTTEN
Sat, Oct 31
|Epsilon Spires
For more than 35 years, Begotten circulated in versions that carried its force but not its complete photographic body. Now restored in 4K for the first time, the sketch has become the painting...
Time & Location
Oct 31, 2026, 8:30 PM – 10:30 PM
Epsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USA
About the event
Begotten was shot in black and white on 16mm reversal film, then rephotographed frame by frame through neutral-density filters. The process took four years and roughly ten hours of work for every finished minute. The image was worked by hand through repeated exposure and filtration until the grain itself began to move like an atmospheric condition, thickening the dark and tearing open the light.
"One of the most important films of modern times."
- Susan Sontag
"Nobody has settled on what to call Begotten since it first appeared. That was never the problem, it is the reason to see it now." -E. Elias Merhige, July 2026
Begotten has no characters in the ordinary sense. Its final credits name three principal figures:
God Killing Himself.
Tickets
BEGOTTEN w/ RETRIBUTION BODY!
HALLOWEEN Tricks & Treats will be provided! Bring cash for the bar.
$20.00
+$0.50 ticket service fee
SLIDING-SCALE TICKET!
Hallolween Tricks & Treats will be provided! Bring cash for the bar.
$+Ticket service fee
Total
$0.00