Free Screening of Vermont Filmmaker Nora Jacobson's Latest Release

98 Town Hill Road,Shrewsbury VT 05738

05 August, 2022

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Vermont filmmaker Nora Jacobson will be screening her newest film, ‘Ruth Stone’s Vast Library of the Female Mind’ which chronicles the poetry and life of Ruth Stone, a former Vermont Poet Laureate who formed much of her art from her hilltop home in Goshen, Vermont. Jacobson’s interest in Ruth Stone began in 2009 when she was hired to film an interview with the ninety-four-year-old poet surrounded by her three adult granddaughters. To this initial kernel, Jacobson added verité footage of Ruth, interviews with her family, friends and fellow poets, and animation by granddaughter Bianca Stone, herself an accomplished poet and artist. Ruth Stone’s house in Goshen also plays a starring role as it is transformed from a ramshackle farmhouse to a vibrant poetry center. Jacobson’s 76-minute documentary, which premiered in Burlington VT last fall, has won awards at the Literature in Cinema Festival and the New Jersey International Film Festival. Best known for initiating and editing the six-part ‘The Vermont Movie’, Jacobson, one of Vermont’s leading filmmakers, will be joining the Shrewsbury screening of the film for Q&A afterwards. Jacobson’s documentary captures not only Ruth Stone’s humor but also her resilience as a single mother after her husband, also a poet, committed suicide in 1959. “Ruth’s life embodied the alchemical process of turning tragedy into art,” said Nora Jacobson in an interview. "I want people to create their own images of her poetry in their minds when they hear her words or read her work." The screening is sponsored and funded by the Shrewsbury Library. Admission is free, but space is limited to 25 attendees. Register to reserve your seat!