THE HAUNTED WORLD OF GEORGE MOORSE (Church of Film)

American Beat Poet George Moorse relocated to Berlin in the 1960s, and established himself as a wunderkind filmmaker of the German New Cinema. Engaged by the Literarisches Colloquium Berlin to make “optical literature,” he committed some of his favorite literary fascinations of horror and the occult onto experimental TV programming. This program presents VAMPIRA, his eerie, cultish Krautrock-flavored docudrama on the history and character of vampires, full of “strange and bizarre images” (and an early ambient score by Tangerine Dream!). Also included will be THE SHADOW OUT OF TIME, his photoplay based on the H.P. Lovecraft tale that was heavily influenced by Chris Marker’s classic La Jetée.