THE LAST UNICORN (1982) + Son Of The White Mare!
Sat, Aug 09
|Epsilon Spires
Join us for a pre-show of hauntingly beautiful scenes from THE LAST UNICORN set to a live harp & electronics score by medieval-ambient-doom duo, Adipocere. Followed by one of the great, rare psychedelic masterpieces of Hungarian animation, SON OF THE WHITE MARE (1981), newly restored in 4K!
Time & Location
Aug 09, 2025, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM
Epsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USA
About the event
THE LAST UNICORN (1982, Dir. Arthur Rankin, Jr., and Jules Bass). A spellbinding adaptation of the beloved 1968 novel The Last Unicorn, adapted for the screen by author Peter S. Beagle himself. Animated by some of the same team who would go on to work with Hayao Miyazaki at Studio Ghibli, The Last Unicorn is a jewel of a film that has been treasured for generations. On discovering that she may well be the last of her immortal kind, the Unicorn sets out on a long journey to discover what may have become of the other unicorns. On the way, she encounters a genuinely wicked witch and a village with a shameful secret. She also befriends a bumbling wizard and a bitter, disillusioned outlaw named Molly Grue, meets the mad King Haggard, and,... at the last, must challenge the terrible Red Bull she so deeply fears to face.
Scenes of the…