ENYS MEN + Neonach
Fri, Aug 23
|Epsilon Spires
“What if the landscape was not only alive, but sentient?” Our Folk Horror Of The British Isles Film Festival ends with the beguiling 16mm meditation on memory and place, “Enys Men” (Cornish for “Stone Island”). Neonach opens tonight's poetic time-warp with trance-inducing ambient soundscapes.
Time & Location
Aug 23, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:00 PM
Epsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USA
About the event
FOLK HORROR OF THE BRITISH ISLES FILM FESTIVAL!
PENDA'S FEN + Magic Tuber Stringband, Sunday, August 11th, 8pm
THE WICKER MAN + Beverly Ketch & Friends! Friday, August 16th, 8pm
ENYS MEN + Neonach, Friday, August, 23rd, 8pm
“What if the landscape was not only alive, but sentient?” Our Folk Horror Film Festival ends with the cryptic and beguiling, Mark Jenkin’s 2022 film “Enys Men” (Cornish for “Stone Island” and pronounced “Ennis Main”) is a seductive, stylistically bold meditation on place and memory.
Off the Cornish coast in the days before May Day, 1973, an unnamed volunteer is stationed alone on a small island. Her life is ritual: walking the rugged cliffs, taking temperature readings around an outcrop of rare flowers; listening to a stone drop down a mineshaft; writing the day’s findings (“no change”) in her botanical diary. Back at the cottage, she fires up the growling generator (fuel…