Vampyr (1932) w/ Live Score by Kraftwitch
- Fri, Oct 30
Run Time: 74 min. Language: German
TICKETS $15
Doors 6:30 p.m.; Event 7 p.m.
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THE EXPERIENCE
Join us for the haunting dreamscape of Vampyr as Philadelphia-based multimedia artist Kraftwitch transforms Carl Theodor Dreyer’s 1932 supernatural masterpiece with a mesmerizing live score.
ON SCREEN: Vampyr
1932. Directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer. Runtime: 1 hour 23 minutes. Not rated.
Allan Gray, a young man fascinated by the supernatural, goes to a small village where he feels a sinister force descending upon him. There, Allan meets an old man who asks him to protect his two daughters, for one of them has been bitten by a vampire.
ON STAGE: kraftwitch
kraftwitch (John Moletress) is a Philadelphia-based artist, producer, psychotherapist, DJ, and founder of Three Wands Records.
Having obtained multiple graduate degrees in music (MA), dance performance (MFA), and psychology (MA), they take an embodied approach to sound with live performance and DJ sets that evoke moving between territories, intimacy and vast environments.
From 2009-2015, they helmed the experimental theatre collective Force Collision, which produced new works from Erik Ehn and Caridad Svich, performing at such venues as La Mama ETC, Homotopia Festival (UK), Kings College (UK), Plymouth University (UK), Abrons Art Center, The Kennedy Center, Arena Stage and The Walker. Their solo performance about Derek Jarman toured throughout the US and Europe. In 2010, they were awarded the Helen Hayes Award for Emerging Theatre Artist in DC. As a writer, they have contributed to American Theatre Magazine, Theatre Communications Group, and NoPassport Press. Profiles of them have appeared in Instinct Magazine, American Theatre Magazine, Out Front Magazine, OUT Magazine, Washington City Paper, The Washington Post, and Time Out.
As a live artist, they have performed new works such as the 24hr durational performance Trigger Warnings and Various Attempts for FUSEBOX Festival (ATX) and Blood Typist at LACA, as well as the live-streamed Untitled Cruising (both in UK/US).
In 2020, kraftwitch returned to music through the creating, coding, and constructing digital music instruments from found objects. Their following grew exponentially over the proceeding year as they livestreamed weekly performances from home during the pandemic. Additionally, they made several videos in the Colorado mountains, “playing” the materials of abandoned mines and other sites through the use of conductive digital interfaces. They took part in the worldwide 7-hour livestreamed opera Full Pink Moon in May 2020, produced by Opera Povera and Gray Center for the Arts and Inquiry. They have live scored the films Pink Narcissus (1971) and Vampyr (1932) in both Denver and at INTERSECTIONS Festival DC.
Additionally, they have been an invited lecturer at such universities as George Washington University, Kings College (UK), Johns Moore Liverpool (UK), Goldsmiths London (UK), Plymouth University (UK), and several others.
They have contributed radio shows to Hyde FM, Loose FM, Rinse FM, and their monthly radio show CHROMA can be heard on Great Circles Radio based in Philadelphia, PA. They have released recently with Three Wands Records, Warehouse Disco, Dragon’s Eye Recordings and Heavy. Cities in which they have appeared as a DJ include NYC, Detroit, Chicago, Seattle, Philadelphia, Paris, London and Amsterdam. Their monthly queer-focused dance and performance event series CURFEW is in residence at broad hall in Philadelphia.
kraftwitch.com; IG: @kraftwitch
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