WRIF 17th Annual Film Festival: To The Moon

WHITE RIVER INDIE FILM FESTIVAL  |  MAY 20 - 29

- Free Movie In The Park on Friday, May 27th-
At Lyman Park in White River Junction, VT

To The Moon

dir. Tadhg O’ Sullivan, Ireland (subtitled)

Directed by Irish filmmaker Tadhg O’Sullvan, To the Moon is a cinematic collage of film, song, and poetry that ponders and celebrates that shimmering orb of the night sky in all its phases and fascinations. Structured as movements through the lunar cycle, To the Moon illuminates humankind’s manifold associations with our nearest cosmic neighbor, from a source of madness to a beacon of love, from a portent of death to a harbinger of renewal. The film unspools humanity’s vague and ethereal wonder through works of music, literature, and, most importantly, cinema. In a luminous tapestry of original and archival footage, the films of F. W. Murnau, Victor Sjöström, Satyajit Ray, and Charlie Chaplin, among countless others, are all woven together. To the Moon is an incantation of celestial awe and an ode to cinema as the lunar art par excellence, with its restless play of shadow and light shining and flickering in the dark.

This screening is sponsored by Janine Kanzler & Mike Tsapakos in memory of Jamie Kanzler.

It is a free, non-ticketed event in Lyman Park (rain location: Briggs). Food will be available for purchase from The Karibbean restaurant, and a beer truck will be on hand from Pizza Chef of Quechee.

Event opens at 7:30. Sunset at 8:20.

Opening short film sponsored by Co-op Food Stores:
“When you’re lost in the rain” by Sky Hopinka.