VTIFF Program Guide 2025 - Flipbook - Page 8
FILMS A TO Z
FH: FILM HOUSE | BB: BLACK BOX THEATER | SR: SCREENING ROOM • All at Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington
ANIMATION WORKSHOP WITH STEVE WOLOSHEN
Sunday, October 26 | 10:30 AM | Lake Lobby
Sponsored by: Champlain College
Free event for all ages. Advance registration is recommended.
Internationally renowned animator Steven Woloshen returns to VTIFF with his muchloved animation workshop. He’ll give you a film strip, and you can choose whatever tools
and materials you’d like to decorate it and tell a mini-story. Scratch, paint, or collage the
surface of your film; the goal is simply to explore, play, and take risks with animation.
After the workshop, all our strips will be strung together and digitized so that we can
present the full story of our adventures in animation during the festival! This activity is
open to everyone and all ages.
BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN
Directed by Sergei Eisenstein
Soviet Union | 1925 | Fiction | 69 min | Silent w/intertitles
Sponsored by: CCTV Center for Media + Democracy
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19 | 7:15 PM | BB
100th Anniversary Screening
With this silent masterpiece, which was commissioned to mark the 20th anniversary of
the first Russian revolution, Sergei Eisenstein innovated and perfected the art of
montage. In his, and his Soviet compatriots’, estimation—confirmed by a century of
cinematic evidence thereafter—when you collide two contrasting shots, you generate a
synthesis of meaning. String these shots together in a sequence, and you have a
symphony of ideological resonance. Potemkin features at least one of the most famous
scenes in all of movie history: the massacre on the Odessa steps. The clash of motion
and mayhem has inspired (i.e., been stolen by) everyone from Francis Bacon to Terry
Gilliam to Brian De Palma. Beyond its academic significance, the raw power of
Eisenstein’s image-making (a baby carriage in peril! a woman struck in the eye during
the melee!) still packs a punch. ~OO
BLUE MOON
A BODY TO LIVE IN
Directed by Richard Linklater
U.S. | 2025 | Fiction | 100 min | English
Directed by Angelo Madsen
U.S. | 2025 | Documentary | 97 min | English
Sponsored by: Barbara McGrew
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19 | 2 PM | FH
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23 | 7:15 PM | FH
The screening is followed by a Q&A with
director Angelo Madsen.
It’s the triumphant opening night of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!, and in the
bar next door, Richard Rodgers’ old partner Lorenz Hart (Ethan Hawke) is talking and
drinking (not in that order), his verbal wizardry just barely concealing his consuming
desperation. Once the after-party arrives, Hart’s rapier wit and dubious sincerity keep
everyone uncomfortable, including Rodgers (Andrew Scott) and the current object of
Hart’s affections, the 18-year-old Elizabeth (Margaret Qualley). Directed by Richard
Linklakter (Boyhood, Dazed and Confused), this slice of chamber-cinema is elevated by
Robert Kaplow’s witty, literary script, its creative use of the single set, and most
especially, a bravura performance from Hawke, who’s never been better. ~SM
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A pioneer of the modern primitive
movement and a “Gender Flex” icon, Fakir
Musafar redefined body modification
through practices such as piercing,
branding, corseting, and suspension,
creating a radically self-expressive art that
used the human body as its canvas. A
photographer, performance artist, and
ritualist, Musafar mobilized an entire
generation of queer BDSM and performance art communities. Filmmaker Angelo
Madsen (North by Current, One Night At Babes) weaves together archival material, audio
recordings of Musafar himself, and reflections from figures like Annie Sprinkle and Ron
Athey to contextualize Musafar’s work as an exploration of resistance and ritual. ~SM
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