The After Hours: Carl Th. Dreyer's VAMPYR (1932)

Carl Th. Dreyer's VAMPYR (1932)

"Full of haunting images – ghostly shadows dancing in a barn, a journey shot from the point of view of a body in a coffin, the killing of a vampire with an iron rod – Dreyer said that he, “wanted to make a film different from all other films…to break new ground for the cinema.” It’s easy to look at Vampyr and come away feeling that the film hasn’t much to say; a film that exists for its own sake. By taking something supernatural, it gives Dreyer the chance to play around with narrative and all the visual tricks of cinema without being hampered by the conventions of a more regular or realistic narrative."

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‘The After Hours’ is a program that runs on weeknights, mainly focusing on 20th-century gems. The goal is to encourage Jakartans to tweak their work-gossip-complain-work lifestyle to something more substantial to dig (well..once in a while). The films are mostly 100 mins or less but with no subsequent official discussion. We guarantee you’d have a good course of topic to talk about with colleagues the next day. If not, then we fail.