Vampyr
Cabaret Cinema

Friday November 20, 2009 @ 9:30 PM


Carl Theodor Dreyer, France/Germany, 1932 (73 minutes)

A student of the occult enters a small village outside of Paris that is plagued by vampires. Dreyer manages to create a horror film. fraught with gorgeous cinematography and complex characters. that never allows the audience to stop thinking. All the imagery is set in a dreamy, gauzy world that seems to exist only for the telling of this delicate tale.  In Jungian terms the vampire is a symbol of the libidinous instincts turning against life. The archetype often reflects the symbiotic complicity that exists between victim and victimizer.

Introduced by Ellen Kushner

Free with a $7 bar minumum

Novelist, performer and public radio personality Ellen Kushner is the host and writer of the national series *PRI's Sound & Spirit. * Her  award-winning novels include the mannerpunk cult classic Swordspoint, and Thomas the Rhymer (World Fantasy Award). Kushner's children's story, The Golden Dreydl: A Klezmer 'Nutcracker', has been produced as a CD (with Shirim Klezmer Orchestra), a picture book, and will be produced onstage in 2009-10 by New York's Vital Theatre. She is a co-founder of the Interstitial Arts Foundation, and lives in New York City.

Inspired by the exhibition The Red Book of C. G. Jung the Red Book series presents classic films that explore Jungian themes, including the various archetypes and the exploration of the self through fantasy.

 

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