THE ADVENTURES OF PRINCE ACHMED w/ Live Music by Dickson & Familiar!
Fri, Feb 06
|Epsilon Spires
The oldest surviving animated feature, Prince Achmed (1926) was created through exquisite, hand-cut paper silhouettes by Lotte Reiniger. Experience this gorgeous, pioneering work of visual poetry with a mesmerizing Orchestral Ambient soundtrack on clarinet & synths by Glenn Dickson & Bob Familiar!
Time & Location
Feb 06, 2026, 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM
Epsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USA
About the event
The Adventures of Prince Achmed (dir. Lotte Reiniger, 1926, 75 min, Appropriate for All-Ages.) Doors open 6:30, Show begins at 7pm.
When The Adventures of Prince Achmed premiered in Germany on September 23, 1926, it was hailed as the first full-length animated film. More than seventy-five years later, this enchanting film still stands as one of the great classics of animation—beautiful, mesmerizing, and utterly seductive. Created through exquisite paper silhouettes and inspired by One Thousand and One Nights, the film transforms myth, magic, and adventure into a pioneering work of visual poetry—one that laid the foundation for experimental and artistic animation.
Taken from The Arabian Nights, the film tells the story of a wicked sorcerer who tricks Prince Achmed into mounting a magical flying horse and sends the rider off on a flight to his death. But the prince foils the magician’s plan and soars headlong into a series of…
Tickets
ADVENTURES OF PRINCE ACHMED!
Doors Open at 6:30, Show Begins at 7pm
$25.00
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Doors Open at 6:30, Show Begins at 7pm
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