Name: The Night Visitors
Start: 2024-07-24T19:30:00-04:00
End: 2024-07-24T22:30:00-04:00
Location: Fort Greene Park

The Night Visitors is an experimental documentary that closely examines moths as organisms, as aesthetic beings, and as carriers of meaning.
About this Event

Date: Wednesday, July 24th

Venue: Fort Greene Park

Address: Myrtle Ave & N Portland Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11205

7 PM: Lawn Opens

8:30 PM: Film Begins

10 PM: Filmmaker Q&A

THE FILM

The Night Visitors

Michael Gitlin | US | 72 mins

The Night Visitors is a movie about moths. In large and small fragments, looking both inward and out, through a critical lens that is by turns social and personal, the film closely considers these underknown creatures. While The Night Visitors is interested in moths as organisms, with fascinating life histories, staggering biodiversity, and a functional importance as indicators of climate change and habitat degradation, its engagement with them is not primarily entomological. Instead, the film looks at moths as aesthetic beings and as carriers of meaning, aiming for a deep encounter with the beauty and incommensurability of the profoundly other. The small hours of the night are threaded through with a sense of mortality and loss. Moths, with their trembling and exquisite impermanence, provide both a kind of solace and, in their diversity and difference, a focal point around which the desire to know can be organized. Presented in Partnership with the Fort Greene Park Conservancy.

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RSVP DOES NOT GUARANTEE ENTRY. SEATING IS FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED.

IN THE EVENT OF RAIN, SHOW WILL BE RESCHEDULED AT THE SAME LOCATION. NO ALCOHOL IS PERMITTED.

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FAQs

How will it work?

RSVP is encouraged but not required for entry. Seating is first come, first served.

Do I need to bring a chair?

Chairs will not be provided. You are welcome to bring your own blanket to sit on the lawn.

Where will the screening take place?

The entrance to the screening will be at the Myrtle Avenue and N Portland Ave entrance to Fort Greene Park. Seating will be on the lawn directly in front of this entrance, with check-in right at the gate to the lawn.

Can I bring food and drinks?

No alcoholic beverages are allowed. Feel free to bring snacks and non-alcoholic beverages!

Are there ID requirements or an age limit to enter the event?

Rooftop Films screenings are open to all ages.

How accessible is this venue?

The lawn where the film will take place is up a steep incline coming from all directions. We are happy to assist anyone walking up the incline, but if this brings up any concerns, please email us at [email protected] or call at 718-417-7362 for more information.