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.
This is the film that established Ungerer as a leading experimental fiction filmmaker. Shot in Vermont. Digitally remastered by VAMP in 2018.
VAMP is a program of VTIFF. Its mission is to locate, catalog, remaster and make available to the public Vermont film’s heritage. VAMP has an online searchable database of Vermont films. Click HERE to browse the database.