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OUR RETRO-FUTURISM NOIR SERIES BEGINS! Å dazzling fusion of existential retro-noir and futuristic paranoia based on a novel by Phillip K. Dick. This 1982 Sci-Fi masterwork follows a government-sanctioned killer as he hunts down a rogue band of genetically engineered replicants. Ambient jazz preshow by REVENAT SEA (Sheri Hupfer & Mark Schwaber)!BLADE RUNNER (1982, 117 mins, Dir. Ridley Scott), In the year 2019, Ex-cop Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) hunts down fugitive, human-like androids called “replicants” in a dystopian, twenty-first century Los Angeles, where neon saturates the crowded landscape and the traffic woes are quelled by endless skyways for flying vehicles. Based on Philip K. Dick’s 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (and borrowing the title of a short story by William S. Burroughs), the film and its story popularized the now-classic cyberpunk conflict about the boundary between human consciousness and artificial intelligence.
BLADE RUNNER is one of the most influential films of the past 30 years. While so many special effects spectacles are lost in time "like tears in the rain", the film remains every bit as influential in its vision as was Fritz Lang’s Metropolis over a half century before. Working with an innovative art department and synth pioneer Vangelis’s atmospheric score., director Ridley Scott embraced an aesthetic that merged old and new technology; industrial designer, illustrator, and “visual futurist” Syd Mead developed much of the film’s groundbreaking visual concepts that would become the gold standard for sci-fi noir. Boasting several different versions of endings, and altered numerous times over the year since its release, Blade Runner is now being presented on the big screen at Epsilon Spires in its definitive Final Cut, overseen by Scott and spectacularly restored and remastered from original elements.
JOIN US FOR OUR RETRO-FUTURISM FILM NOIR SERIES! Before each screening will be a live performance of ambient/folk-jazz music inspired by the film by REVENANT SEA and a raffle to win a $25 gift certificate to Verdigris Antiques! Doors 6:30pm. Show 7:00. Film 7:30pm. Popcorn Included! Please bring cash for the bar.
Friday, 13th Blade Runner: Final. Cut (1982, Dir. Ridley Scott) w/ live music by Revenant Sea.
Sunday, 15th, Escapes (2017, Directed by Michael Almereyda).
Wednesday, February 25th, BRAZIL (1985, Dir. Terry Gilliam) w/ Live Music by Revenant Sea
Saturday, March 7th, Naked Lunch (1991, Dir. David Cronenberg) w/ live music by Revenant Sea
Sunday, March 8th- William Burroughs “Cut-Ups” vintage typewriter deconstructed-poetry workshop led by Sheri Hupfer.
Revenant Sea is the collaborative ambient/folk-jazz project of Mark Schwaber and Sheri Hupfer, combining haunting melodies and deeply textured arrangements. The project captures introspective, atmospheric soundscapes—mixing intimate folk lyricism with subtle jazz infusions and field recordings. Currently stemming from the Brattleboro//Greenfield area, Revenant Sea draws organically from its creators’ chemistry and shared influences.
Mark Schwaber is a seasoned indie musician, producer, with deep roots in experimental songwriting and collaboration. As a multi-disciplinary artist, Sheri Hupfer works in many mediums; from the instrument of the body, textiles and rusty metal, to arranging objects in her interior design work, sound is always at the foundation. It is the attention to how sound moves in space, how objects placed can bend or alter it. Sheri is most vested in how place informs the music while utilizing voice to translate memory and emotion recognizing that much of the sound is not heard but felt.
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Epsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301-2837, United States
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