VAMPYR (1932) w/ Live Score by Lori Goldston
Sun, Oct 13
|Epsilon Spires
Cellist Lori Goldston performs an original live soundtrack to one of cinema’s most poetic nightmares, Carl Dreyer's VAMPYR, a waking dream of hauntingly beautiful and unsettling imagery. Before the film we will screen the shocking, exquisite, (and obscure) avant-garde short: Ménilmontant (1926)
Time & Location
Oct 13, 2024, 8:00 PM – 9:30 PM
Epsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USA
About the event
"Vampyr' is as close as you get to poetry in film." -Guillermo del Toro
Nearly unclassifiable, VAMPYR (1933) remains a cornerstone work of the horror genre. The dreamlike tale of an occult-obsessed student's visit to a small French village, as he is drawn into the unsettling mystery around a stricken family's struggle with malevolent forces, remains an unparalleled evocation of the uncanny. Adapting the haunted stories of Sheridan Le Fanu, Carl Dreyer's ceaseless innovation delivers a tour-de-force of supernatural phantasmagoria and eerie unease, via audacious camerawork. Presented from an all-new 2K restoration by the Danish Film Institute, supported by the MEDIA program Creative Europe, and taking more than a decade to complete – materials from several European archives (including the BFI, CNC and DFI) have been meticulously scanned and assessed to create the highest quality and most faithful version of VAMPYR possible.
"The film that Dreyer described as a “waking…
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VAMPYR w/ Lori Goldston
Admission for one to VAMPYR (1932) w/ Live Soundtrack by Lori Goldston Popcorn and refreshments are included! Doors open at 7:45pm, the film begins at 8pm. Please let us know if you require special arrangements. Enjoy the program!
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Ticket for one to VAMPYR w/ Live Soundtrack by Lori Goldston!. Thanks to a generous grant from the Ben and Jerry’s Foundation, subsidized sliding-scale tickets are available for those who self-identify as experiencing financial hardship. In order to make this program accessible for all, we are offering tickets by sliding scale. Taking equity and inclusion into account, please pay what you can to help support the venue.
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