ArtWRKD art consortium will screen “Fruitlands 1843” on Thursday, April 25 at 7:30 PM at the historic Newtown Theatre. The film will be introduced by local film professor emeritus Mark Bezanson and followed by a Q&A with poet filmmaker Vasiliki Katsarou. This event is part of ArtWRKD’s celebration of National Poetry Month.
Online tickets for this one-night-only screening are $25. All seating is general admission.
ABOUT THE FILM
“Fruitlands 1843” tells the true story of the short-lived utopian community founded by Louisa May Alcott’s father Bronson Alcott during the Transcendentalist period in Massachusetts. The film has been called “breathtaking” and “Bergman-esque” by The Boston Globe while the Cleveland Film Society described it as “Haunting, stark, and extremely subtle and powerful. The artistic telling of a quiet and powerful silence.”
“Fruitlands 1843” features an array of highly respected Boston theater actors and is also the first 35mm film experience by the noted UK cinematographer Haris Zambarloukos (Belfast, A Haunting in Venice, Mamma Mia! 2008). The original score was composed by UK-based composer Richard Whalley. “Fruitlands 1843” was featured at the 22nd Independent Film Project and screened at the Angelika Film Center in NYC, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Harvard Film Archive, and the Drama Film Festival in Greece.
“Fruitlands 1843” is the only 35mm film written and directed by the New Jersey-based Greek American poet Vasiliki Katsarou. Katsarou is a Geraldine R. Dodge Festival Poet, who has worked in film production in France and Greece, and recently embarked on a literary publishing venture, Solitude Hill Press.
DETAILS
Doors open at 6:30 PM and the film starts at 7:30 PM.
All seating is general admission.
POETRY OF PLACE WORKSHOP
ArtWRKD will offer a “Poetry of Place” workshop with Vasiliki Katsarou on Saturday, April 27 from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. at ArtWRKD’s workshop space at 126 South State Street, Newtown Borough. Poetry responses to “Fruitlands 1843” and to personal utopias of the imagination will be elicited, in the spirit of “first thought, best thought.” No writing experience necessary. Register here.