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Fri 6 September, 6.30pm & 8.30pm: Wayfaring Stranger

Fri 6 September, 6.30pm & 8.30pm: Wayfaring Stranger

A special preview of the new feature film by artist filmmaker Andrea Luka ZimmermanWayfaring Stranger charts the life of an itinerant character, embodied by seven performers, across seven days, representing seven decades.
Sat 7 August, 6pm: Mirror

Sat 7 August, 6pm: Mirror

While Mirror, like all Tarkovsky’s films, pays homage to painting, music, and poetry, it also makes plain that the Russian director understood Mnemosyne to be the mother of the muses. Being a poet, he sought not only to retrieve the past but to reveal its essence – and in so doing to redeem an inherently flawed present. 
Sat 7 September, 8pm: The Turin Horse

Sat 7 September, 8pm: The Turin Horse

Boldly proclaimed by Tarr to be his last film, The Turin Horse offers a masterful and melancholy summary of his unique visionary cinema. A remarkably hypnotic and immersive film, The Turin Horse pushes Tarr’s interest in texture, sound and motion to an expressive extreme, giving way to a sensorial richness rare in cinema today.
Sun 8 September, 4.30pm: Andrei Rublev

Sun 8 September, 4.30pm: Andrei Rublev

Originally titled The Passion According to Andrei, Tarkovsky’s second feature remains a wholly original epic, a life of the medieval icon painter encompassing the full horror of history. The culminating vision of Rublev’s Trinity only emerges from the yoke of Tartar occupation, mystic rites, excommunications, and nearly unrelieved suffering.
Sun 8 September, 8pm: Werckmeister Harmonies

Sun 8 September, 8pm: Werckmeister Harmonies

This mesmeric parable of societal collapse is an enigma of transcendent visual, philosophical, and mystical resonance. In thirty-nine hypnotic long takes engraved in ghostly black and white, auteur Béla Tarr and codirector-editor Ágnes Hranitzky conjure an apocalyptic vision of dreamlike dread and fathomless beauty.

Calendar

Sun 08 Sep 4:30pm
Andrei Rublev
Sun 08 Sep 8:00pm
Werckmeister Harmonies
Thu 12 Sep 8:15pm
The Outsider
Fri 13 Sep 8:15pm
Ivan’s Childhood
Sat 14 Sep 6:00pm
Mirror
Sat 14 Sep 8:00pm
Stalker
Sun 15 Sep 4:30pm
Andrei Rublev