Contemporary Masters

Contemporary Masters

Screening works by Bill Morrison, Gianfranco Rosi, Jafar Panahi and Adina Pintilie.

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Contemporary Masters
  • Taxi

    Jafar Panahi • 2015 • Iran

    Banned from filmmaking, Panahi has adopted a new hobby—driving a taxi.

    He navigates the streets of the Iranian capital picking up passengers: two women with a goldfish, a bootleg DVD dealer, his young niece.

    In Taxi, from the vantage point of the cab's dashboard a po...

  • The Death of Mr. Lazarescu

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    Cristi Puiu • 2015 • Romania • An old man is shuttled across Bucharest from one clinic to another.

    Dante Remus Lazarescu is feeling dreadfully ill. In the search for medical attention, his lone ally is Mioara, a Virgil-like paramedic ushering him toward certain twilight.

    Bone-d...

  • The Five Obstructions

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    Lars von Trier • 2003 • Denmark-Switzerland-Belgium-France • Lars von Trier challenges his mentor.

    Documents the re-making of Jørgen Leth's classic short film The Perfect Human through a maddening maze of obstacles imposed by his former student Lars von Trier.

    In 1967, prominent ...

  • The Pearl Button

    Patricio Guzmán • Chile • 2014

    Navigating Chile's colonial and political histories vis-à-vis its expansive waterways, The Pearl Button charts the labyrinths of individual and collective memory.

  • The Woman Who Left

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    Lav Diaz • 2016 • Philippines • A woman's path to redemption after thirty unjust years in jail.

    Horacia has spent the past thirty years in jail for a crime she didn't commit. Returning home, she becomes set on a path of revenge against Rodrigo, a wealthy ex-lover who framed her.

    ...

  • This Is Not a Film

    Jafar Panahi • 2011 • Iran

    Banned Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi inscribes small acts of resistance in the fabric of quotidian existence, as he remains enclosed within the confines of his Tehran apartment.

  • Touch Me Not

    Adina Pintilie • 2018 • Romania

    Touch Me Not interrogates our notions of intimacy, and beauty, through a series of encounters with individuals who eschew touch.

    NOTE: The following film contains explicit images and graphic sexual content

    Essay: Corporeal Legibility in the Age of Coronavirus—A...

  • Une Vie (A Woman's Life)

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    Stéphane Brizé • 2016 • France-Belgium

    Stéphane Brizé's luminous film depicts the travails of a noble woman enthralled and exploited by her male companions in nineteenth-century France.

    Raised amid the sun-dappled countryside of Normandy, young aristocrat Jeanne meets and soon en...

  • Unrelated

    Joanna Hogg • United Kingdom • 2007 • An exacting eye on the discontents of the British upper class.

    Anna arrives at a stately villa in Tuscany to visit her longtime friend, Verena. Her husband, Alex, has canceled at the last minute, a minor inconvenience that irritates Verena nonetheless. Tho...

  • Winter Sleep

    Nuri Bilge Ceylan • Turkey • 2014

    Cappadocia, present day. Aydin, a retired actor, runs a small hotel, where he lives with beautiful young wife Nihal and his recently divorced sister. Growingly restless in this provincial region, Nihal busies herself with small philanthropic projects; Aydin, m...

  • You, the Living

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    Roy Andersson • Sweden • 2007

    Dreams can be terrifying. But so is reality. A psychiatrist prescribes pills to his patients, unconvinced that happiness is even possible. A middle-aged woman is down in the dumps, but refuses her boyfriend’s comfort. A pickpocket robs a fancy diner b...