The Animal: VAMP special screening
Shelburne Museum
Sunday, Mar 3, 2019 4:00 PM
Presented by VTIFF and Shelburne Museum
Written & Directed by Walter Ungerer
USA | 1976 | Fiction | 75 mins
This special screening will be introduced by Steve Bissette (author of "Green Mountain Cinema", cartoonist and professor at the The Cartoon Studies Center) and followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Ungerer, moderated by Bissette. The screening will be accompanied by a reception (light food fare and cash bar) - an opportunity to meet and greet the filmmaker and to learn more about VAMP (Vermont Archive Movie Project)
A woman waits for a man at a deserted railroad station somewhere in northern New England. It is the middle of winter. Snow is falling. The two drive to a remote farmhouse. Later two strange children appear at the window, and an old woman summons them away. Isolation, then alienation overcome the couple. The woman has a dream which comes true. She disappears. Nothing is explained. Only footprints remain in the snow that covers the supernatural landscape.