The Dryden will screen Nevesta (The Bride, Svyatoslav Podgaevskiy, Russia 2017, 93 min., DCP, Russian w/subtitles) as part of the Through a Lens Darkly series.

A nineteenth-century artist who specializes in death photography—the practice of photographing the recently deceased to honor them and ease the transition to grief for their loved ones—loses his wife in a tragic accident. He takes her photograph posed in a favorite chair and with open eyes painted over her closed eyelids. In an effort to revive his dead wife's soul in another body, he kidnaps a young virgin and buries her with the corpse. What comes back is not what the photographer was expecting. Years later, a young couple who want to be married on the estate discover that, despite the passage of time and the years of neglect, a strange spirit still haunts the house.

[source: George Eastman Museum calendar, 2018-Oct-22]