Past Events
Sat, Oct 09Epsilon SpiresOct 09, 8:00 PM – 11:00 PMEpsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USAA multimedia event featuring Super-8 films by Ken Brown. Used as projected light shows in the late 1960's during performances by Jimi Hendrix, the Grateful Dead, and The Velvet Underground, newly revitalized with an energetic live musical score by Ken Winokur, Jonathan LaMaster and Russ Gershon!
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Fri, Oct 01Epsilon SpiresOct 01, 8:00 PM – 11:00 PMEpsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USAOne of Japanese cinema’s wildest supernatural ventures and a truly startling and unique work of art, HAUSU is a rollercoaster ride without brakes. Aesthetically adventurous, sinister yet hilarious, with ceaseless cinematic invention and a satirical hypercolored approach to the horror genre.
Sat, Sep 25Epsilon SpiresSep 25, 8:00 PM – 11:00 PMEpsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USAFour films by Matthew Kohn that explore war, nature, obedience and individuality through experimental filmmaking techniques with live improvisational music performed by William Hooker, Roger Clark Miller, Stan Harrison, and Gerard Smith.
Sat, Sep 18Epsilon SpiresSep 18, 7:00 PM – 9:30 PMEpsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USAA moving and funny homage to Chaplin’s classic The Kid (which turns 100 this year!) Charles Lane’s gorgeous black and white comedy balances charming visual gags with an earnest social realism to deliver a timeless message of generosity and love. Premiere musical interpretation by Dan DeWalt!
Fri, Sep 10Epsilon SpiresSep 10, 7:30 PM – 10:00 PMEpsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USAPrince’s PURPLE RAIN reimagined in the desert city of Agadez, Niger, starring the Tuareg guitar virtuoso Mdou Moctar. This sincere DIY homage features electrifying musical performances that provide an experimental ethnographic window into the fascinating Tuareg music scene.
Fri, Sep 03Epsilon Spires
Wed, Sep 01Epsilon SpiresSep 01, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PMEpsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USAOur September program features diverse pieces: Three Synagogue Preludes by Reuven Kosakoff; American Folk Melodies by the blind jazz musician, George Shearing; Music by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, African-English composer; and the Gregorian Chant Suite, Mariales by Lebanese composer, Naji Hakim.
Sat, Aug 28Epsilon SpiresAug 28, 8:00 PM – 10:00 PMEpsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USAJoin us in our Sanctuary for an unforgettable experience! Fritz Lang's newly restored 1927 Sci-fi Masterpiece with a live soundtrack performed on our historic Estey pipe organ by Ben Model, one of the nation’s leading silent film accompanists!
Fri, Aug 27Epsilon SpiresAug 27, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PMEpsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USAJoin us for this special free event in The Backlot Cinema featuring Indian Film, Cuisine and Handicrafts! Featuring an introduction by Vidhi Salla, host of international radio show Vidhi's Bollywood Jukebox and delicacies by Shital's Indian Vegetarian Food!
Fri, Aug 20Epsilon SpiresAug 20, 8:00 PM – 10:30 PMEpsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USAAn intersectional eco-activist comedy with a punk ethos of rebellion and fun! Shu Lea Cheang's film FRESH KILL explores media as both a mechanism of control and a potential tool of protest, solidarity and change, exploding the obscured mechanics of environmental racism into plain view.
Fri, Aug 13Epsilon Spires
Fri, Aug 06Virtual TheaterAug 06, 11:59 PM – Sep 04, 12:00 AMVirtual TheaterThe incredible and mostly true story of five unfinished feature films from the Communist era in Afghanistan (1978-1991) – when films were weapons, filmmakers became targets, and the dreams of constantly shifting political regimes merged with the stories told onscreen.
Fri, Aug 06BrattleboroAug 06, 8:00 PM – 11:00 PMBrattleboro, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USAAn inimitable ethnographer of offbeat Americana, the late Les Blank (1935-2013) chronicled the music, food and rituals of regional micro-cultures. From odes to garlic and gap-toothed women, to intimate portraits of blues and folk music legends, Blank’s films are joyous celebrations of humanity!
Sat, Jul 31Epsilon SpiresJul 31, 7:30 PM – 10:00 PMEpsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USAVermont premiere of the filmed production of BABYLON: Journeys of Refugees by Sandglass Theater. A moving and action-packed multimedia experience that looks at the relationship of refugees to their homelands, lost and new, and the conflicts that exist within the countries to which they flee.
Fri, Jul 30BrattleboroJul 30, 8:00 PM – 11:00 PMBrattleboro, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USANewly restored in 4K from the original print, Djibril Diop Mambéty’s tragicomic masterpiece presents a visually stunning and often hilarious critique of neocolonialist structures, capitalist society, and consumer culture. Somali Bantu Cuisine created by Said Bulle of Jilib Jiblets will be available.
Fri, Jul 23Epsilon SpiresJul 23, 8:00 PM – Jul 24, 11:00 PMEpsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USATrekking on horseback through the desolate landscape of rural Indonesia, Marlina is bent on administering vigilante justice to carve out a space in a world set against her. With an Ennio Morricone-inspired score, Mouly Surya’s visually stunning epic is a subversive take on the popular genre.
Fri, Jul 23Epsilon SpiresJul 23, 6:00 PM – 8:15 PMEpsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USAAn Epic Multi-Course Dinner by award-winning chef Retno Pratiwi of Kaki Lima NYC! Featuring cuisine inspired by the film: Marlina the Murderer, a Indonesian spagetti-western tale of revenge screening in our Backlot Cinema after this unique dining experience.
Mon, Jul 19Virtual TheaterJul 19, 12:00 AM – Aug 23, 12:00 AMVirtual TheaterIn the last decade of his long and prolific career, Nobuhiko Obayashi (1938-2020) best-known in the U.S. for the cult hit House (1977) wrote and directed a trio of deeply personal and formally audacious films that confronted Japan’s wartime past.
Sun, Jul 18Epsilon Spires
Fri, Jul 16Epsilon SpiresJul 16, 7:00 PM – 10:00 PMEpsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USACelebrate Black Girlhood & Womanhood through Poetry, Film, Food & Chocolate in our Outdoor Cinema! Featuring the films Hey Little Black Girl and The Fits, poetry read by poets from around New England, and soul food created by local culinary artists in response to the poems.
Fri, Jul 16Virtual TheaterJul 16, 12:00 AM – Jul 31, 11:59 PMVirtual TheaterThe stranger-than-fiction story of how a group of Osaka textile workers in the late 1950's are transformed into a fiercely competitive women’s volleyball team becoming an international sensation, feminist role models, and the subject of a wildly popular comic book and a still-influential anime.
Fri, Jul 09Epsilon SpiresJul 09, 8:00 PM – 10:30 PM EDTEpsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USAWinner of the Grand Jury Prize in World Cinema Documentary at Sundance, EPICENTRO explores a century of interventionism and myth-making together with the extraordinary people of Havana— to interrogate time, imperialism and cinema itself.
Fri, Jul 02Epsilon SpiresJul 02, 8:00 PM – 10:30 PMEpsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USATERROR NULLIUS by artist duo Soda Jerk is a political dark comedy created entirely from samples pirated from the Australian film canon. Symbols of nationalism and colonization are systematically deconstructed by those they oppress and reassembled to create wildly cathartic narratives of liberation.
Fri, Jun 25Epsilon SpiresJun 25, 8:00 PM – 10:30 PMEpsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USAA rare real-life snapshot of the creative energy and subculture of post-punk era New York City, starring a then-unknown, 19-year-old Jean-Michel Basquiat as a penniless, newly-evicted young artist wandering the streets and clubs of Manhattan as he searches for a mystery woman and a place to crash.
Wed, Jun 23Epsilon Spires
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Fri, Jun 11Epsilon Spires
Fri, Jun 11Virtual TheaterJun 11, 12:01 AM – Jul 11, 11:59 PMVirtual TheaterThe thriller genre is exploded and reassembled in this funny and alluring lo-fi epic on paranoia, surveillance, and performance. Stephanie, a restless actress, meets Gerard, an NYPD counter-terrorism specialist who’s an aficionado of experimental theater (and maybe out of his mind).
Fri, Jun 11Virtual TheaterJun 11, 12:00 AM – Jul 09, 11:58 PMVirtual TheaterA collection of nine films by emerging filmmakers from underrepresented communities around the world, presented by the new distribution initiative Dedza Films. Each of these stories is personal and distinctly told, but unified by themes of rebirth and growth.
Fri, Jun 04Epsilon SpiresJun 04, 8:00 PM – 10:30 PMEpsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USAThe Backlot Cinema series begins with an enchanting and romantic portrait of the inspiring life of Finnish artist Tove Jansson, a woman who defied the bourgeois norms of post-War Europe to live a life of artistic and sexual freedom. Introduction by multimedia artist and film scholar, Jo Dery!
Fri, May 21Virtual Theatre
Fri, May 07Epsilon SpiresMay 07, 7:30 PM – 9:00 PMEpsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USACelebration of NATURE/NURTURE, an exhibition of new multimedia works by Brent Birnbaum & Christin Ripley featuring a performance by J. Ivcevich: Improvisational music rooted in analog drones, arpeggiating synths and subtle churning rhythm patterns pulsing through dub delays and oscillating filters.
Fri, May 07Sanctuary GalleryMay 07, 5:00 PM – 9:00 PMSanctuary Gallery, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USARipley’s handpainted textiles are sewn and upholstered into sculpture, furniture and functional objects. Applying the philosophy that the artist is not the driving force or branding of a product, but one hand of many that make possible for an idea to manifest in the material world.
Fri, May 07Sanctuary GalleryMay 07, 5:00 PM – 9:00 PMSanctuary Gallery, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USABirnbaum embarks on projects that challenge him mentally and physically by collecting and repurposing a difficult quantity of an absurd material. Inspired equally by historical narrative and the readymade materials in it's wake, he is on a quest to discover and create life’s unseen angles
Fri, Apr 30Virtual CinemaApr 30, 12:00 AM – May 31, 11:59 PMVirtual CinemaThe director of oscar-nominated RAMS, Grímur Hákonarson returns to his native Iceland with another humanist farmland fable. A deeply affecting and timely political allegory set within a jaw-dropping natural landscape, aided by a tenacious anti-heroine with a touch of dry, idiosyncratic Nordic humor.
Mon, Apr 19Virtual CinemaApr 19, 11:40 AM EDT – May 02, 11:59 PM EDTVirtual CinemaExplore the History and Future of LSD on Bicycle Day, April 19th! In honor of the first time a young Swiss chemist named Albert Hofmann ingested a dose of a new compound he discovered in 1943, a drug so potent that mere fractions of a milligram can alter the perception of reality.
Fri, Apr 09Virtual CinemaApr 09, 12:00 AM – Apr 30, 11:59 PMVirtual CinemaA lush, poetic contemplation on the cycle of afterlife, rebirth, and death based on Chinookan cosmology from the Pacific Northwest. Probing questions about humanity’s place on earth and other worlds, Sky Hopinka’s new visionary film will have audiences thinking (and dreaming) about it long after.
Fri, Apr 02Virtual CinemaApr 02, 11:40 AM – Apr 30, 11:59 PMVirtual CinemaWhen her village is threatened with forced resettlement due to reservoir construction, an 80-year-old widow (Mary Twala) becomes an unlikely leader who ignites the spirit of resistance within her community. Award winner at Sundance and the first ever submission from Lesotho to the Academy Awards.
Fri, Mar 19Virtual Cinema
Fri, Mar 19Virtual CinemaMar 19, 12:00 AM EDT – Apr 09, 12:00 AM EDTVirtual CinemaWhether harvesting medicinal herbs, smoking a Sonoran toad’s psychedelic venom, or cultivating unsettling acts of eco-terrorism, Sundog’s way of life raises provocative questions about humanity’s relation to the environment – and to itself – amidst the specter of global collapse.
Fri, Mar 12Virtual CinemaMar 12, 12:01 AM – Apr 01, 12:00 AMVirtual CinemaIn this meta-theatrical film about love in the 21st century, four young queer artists in NYC struggle to maintain the tenderness and warmth of their proto-utopian community against the outside world as their lives curiously merge with the 1980s German novel So Schön by Ronald M. Schernikau
Fri, Mar 12Virtual CinemaMar 12, 12:00 AM – Apr 02, 11:59 PMVirtual CinemaA beguiling postmodern collage of Black activism and art shot in vibrant color on 16mm. Ephraim Asili's debut explores the formation, growth, and tensions of a shared Black space for socialist thought and creativity using a political pop aesthetic that recalls Jean-Luc Godard in the late 1960's.
Mon, Mar 08Virtual TheaterMar 08, 12:00 AM – Mar 31, 11:59 PMVirtual TheaterJoin us on International Women's Day, March 8th for English Vinglish: a gently impactful story of a woman’s awakening of self empowerment. Presented by Vidhi Salla, host of the international radio program: Vidhi's Bollywood Jukebox. RSVP to join the Post-Film discussion March 13th, 11am-12pm (EST).
Fri, Mar 05Virtual CinemaMar 05, 12:00 AM – Mar 26, 4:00 AMVirtual CinemaBetween the opening sequence, a man in red speedos conducting an outdoor orchestra, and the triple-meta denouement, this whip-smart French comedy disregards audience expectations, the fourth wall, and the laws of time and space. You’ll never look at a protractor or an oyster the same way again.
Fri, Mar 05Virtual CinemaMar 05, 12:00 AM – Mar 26, 11:59 PMVirtual CinemaSet in a near-future when commercial space travel has begun, this speculative documentary combines observational footage with virtual reality to create a lyrical meditation on progress, history, and how we navigate a sense of loss within ourselves and a changing world.
Fri, Jan 29Virtual CinemaJan 29, 12:00 AM – Feb 12, 11:59 PMVirtual CinemaFrank Beauvais’s intimate essay film assembles excerpts from the 400-plus films the French director watched over a four-month period of seclusion. The resulting montage reframes otherwise incidental images into an indelible and immensely moving reflection on life, love, and loss.
Fri, Jan 29Epsilon Spires Virtual Cinema
Fri, Jan 29Virtual CinemaJan 29, 12:00 AM – Feb 12, 11:59 PMVirtual CinemaWinner at Venice Film Festival and Ukraine's official selection for the 2021 Oscars. Set in 2025, Sergiy, a former soldier meets Katya while on a mission dedicated to exhuming the past. Together, they try to return to some sort of normal life in which they are allowed to fall in love again.
Fri, Jan 08Virtual CinemaJan 08, 12:00 AM – Jan 14, 11:59 PMVirtual CinemaCan art and design change the world for the better? How does immigration fuel American culture? This documentary explores the role of design and culture in civic life through the inspiring philosophy and artworks of László Moholy-Nagy. RSVP for link to join a Filmmaker Q&A, 8pm, Wednesday, Jan.13th.- <
Sat, Dec 26Epsilon Spires Virtual CinemaDec 26, 2020, 7:00 PM – Jan 16, 2021, 11:59 PMEpsilon Spires Virtual CinemaJoin us for Mughal-e-Azam (1960) The Indian grand epic that has all the great music and dazzling costumes that have become a hallmark of the genre. Presented by Vidhi Salla host of the radio program, Vidhi's Bollywood Jukebox. Online Film Discussion will be 8pm (EST) on Saturday, January 2nd.