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Fertile Memory

Prismatic Ground kicks off its fourth edition with the Belgian Film Archive restoration of this mournful, poetic glimpse of everyday life in the occupied West Bank.

A long-blonde-haired woman in a gray sweater looks up at a man with short dark hair in a gray suit in a modern-looking room with blue neon lights
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The Beast

Bertrand Bonello has created a dynamic and disturbing parable that jumps between three different time periods (1910, 2014, and 2044) to diagnose our acute—and perhaps eternal—feelings of estrangement and alienation. Screening 5/10–5/18.

A black and white photo of three Japanese boys in white caps sitting forlornly with their chins in their hands on the edge of a house's front porch.

Children in the Wind

In Shimizu’s most renowned and adored film in Japan, the idyllic country life of two brothers is suddenly thrown into crisis one summer when their father is wrongly arrested for embezzlement.

A black and white photo of two Japanese women leaning against a wooden pole and looking hopefully into the camera from a high angle.

Sayon’s Bell

Shimizu's film draws on the then widely circulated story of a 17-year-old Taiwanese aboriginal girl whose patriotic zeal so gripped her that she drowned amid a storm while seeing off her Japanese teacher for the Chinese front.

A black and white photo of children in a tree wearing masks and looking down at the camera.

Four Seasons of Children: Spring/Summer

Singled out by several Shimizu scholars as a masterpiece, this two-volume sequel to Children in the Wind portrays the ongoing trials of boys Zenta and Sanpei as their family once again falls on hard times.

An elderly woman with dark brown skin, white curly hair, gold hoop earrings, and a purple and orange colored shirt sits and smiles, talking to camera, in front of green and black African-style sculptures

Daughters

Legendary documentarian Kirchheimer speaks with various women on the beautiful, fragile, and sometimes fraught relationship between daughter and parent and the role it played in shaping their identity. Director will appear in person.

A black-and-white image from the 1930s of young Japanese boys dressed in school uniforms and caps standing amidst a sun-dappled field of wheat

Four Seasons of Children: Autumn/Winter

Singled out by several Shimizu scholars as a masterpiece, this two-volume sequel to Children in the Wind portrays the ongoing trials of boys Zenta and Sanpei as their family once again falls on hard times.

A long-blonde-haired woman in a gray sweater looks up at a man with short dark hair in a gray suit in a modern-looking room with blue neon lights
Recurring

The Beast

Bertrand Bonello has created a dynamic and disturbing parable that jumps between three different time periods (1910, 2014, and 2044) to diagnose our acute—and perhaps eternal—feelings of estrangement and alienation. Screening 5/10–5/18.

A black and white photo of a Japanese man and woman standing by a tree outside; he looks at her, she looks off past the camera.

Ornamental Hairpin

Shimizu’s plaintive romance turns on the encounter between a convalescing soldier (Ozu stalwart Chishu Ryū) and a young woman (the great Kinuyo Tanaka) fleeing her sordid past at a secluded mountain spa.