KILLER OF SHEEP
$12.00 (member) ; $17.00 (general admission)
Ticket prices include a $2.00 online booking fee.
Aero Theatre | Introduction by archivist Jill Borders and Q&A with filmmaker Charles Burnett
L.A. Premiere of New 4K Restoration
Co-presented by UCLA Film & Television Archive
‘This Is Not a Fiction 2025’
- RELEASED IN: 1978
- 75 MINUTES
- DIRECTED BY: Charles Burnett
ABOUT THE RESTORATION:
KILLER OF SHEEP has been digitally restored to 4K and remastered by UCLA Film & Television Archive, Milestone Films, and the Criterion Collection. Picture Restoration: Illuminate Hollywood. Photochemical Film Preservation: Film Technology Company. Sound Mix and Restoration: John Polito of Audio Mechanics and Larry Blake. Audio Transfers: DJ Audio, Endpoint Audio Labs. Music Rights: Chris Robertson, Global ImageWorks and Milestone Films. Restoration supervised by Ross Lipman and Jillian Borders in consultation with Charles Burnett.
ABOUT THE FILM:
Burnett’s films focus on everyday life in black communities in a manner rarely in American cinema — combining lyrical elements with a starkly neorealist, documentary-style approach that chronicles the unfolding story with depth and riveting simplicity. In KILLER OF SHEEP, Stan, employed at a slaughterhouse, is suffering from the emotional side effects of his bloody occupation to such a degree that his entire life unhinges. Burnett once said of the film, “[Stan’s] real problems lie within the family, trying to make that work and be a human being. You don’t necessarily win battles; you survive.”
FORMAT: DCP
DISTRIBUTOR: Kino Lorber
COUNTRY: USA
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