VIFF Live pushes the boundaries of traditional film festival programming, intersecting cinema culture with music, comedy, podcasting and performance in unique, cinema-infused live shows across Vancouver.
Take a look back at VIFF Live 2022
NOSFERATU 100 by BIG KILL: A Symphony of Horror
Destructive pop duo BIG KILL (the latest project from We Are the City’s Cayne McKenzie and Andrew Huculiak) resurrected horror centenarian Nosferatu in the gothic setting of St. Andrew’s-Wesley for a spellbinding night of hyper pop frenzy. Cinema’s first adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, F.W. Murnau’s masterpiece casts a long shadow over the history of movie horror. A viral hit, Nosferatu emerged just four years after the 1918 H1N1 pandemic claimed the lives of 50 million souls, fanning fears of the Other.
An Evening with
Michael Abels
Composer,
Nope, Get Out, Us
Two-time Emmy-nominated composer Michael Abels is known for his genre-defying scores for the Jordan Peele films Get Out, Nope, and Us, for which Abels won a World Soundtrack Award, the Jerry Goldsmith Award, a Critics Choice nomination, and multiple critics awards. It was an intimate evening of insight, creativity, and performances of Abels’ music, featuring the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra.