THE NAKED ISLAND w/ Music by Slow Meadow & Kennebec
Fri, Nov 07
|Epsilon Spires
Join us for an immersive cinematic experience featuring a meditative live soundtrack exploring impermanence, love, and the cycles of time. A poetic social critique that blends silent film and documentary, The Naked Island offers an intimate portrait of 20th-century peasant life in Japan.
Time & Location
Nov 07, 2025, 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Epsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USA
About the event
The Finale of our Autumn Japanese Arthouse Film Series THE SPIRIT OF HARVEST: a Trifecta of Masterworks by Kaneto Shindo: The Naked Island (1960, 96 Minutes). "A fascinating early hybridization of documentary and fiction that takes to an important extreme the focus of Shindo’s early films on Japan’s working classes. An epic yet intimate chronicle of the daily lives and struggles of a farmer family on a remote Inland Sea island, Shindo’s internationally celebrated film revitalized the legacy of Flaherty’s Man of Aran and sharply divided Western critics, with the majority embracing Shindo’s poetic ethnography. Today Shindo’s innovative use of non-actors to restage their own lives seems ahead of its time, equally innovative as the film’s use of a lush yet modernist score and near avoidance of dialogue- another remarkable updating and reinvention of Flaherty’s literary realism". - Harvard Film Archive
"Melding of techniques from silent cinema and contemporary documentary, Kaneto Shindo’s masterful The Naked…
Tickets
THE NAKED ISLAND w/ Live Score
$20.00
Sliding-Scale Ticket
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