This six-part series, presented by Dr. Suranjan Ganguly, is an investigation of the ways in which landscape and architecture are represented on film, focusing on issues such as margins and centers, political geography, exile, inner space, memory and time, the sublime, and transcendence.
CU Professor Emeritus Suranjan Ganguly of the Cinema Studies Department teaches a wide range of international film courses. Former chair of the department and director of the Stan Brakhage Center for Media Arts, he is the founder and curator of the monthly Brakhage Film Series, Celebrating Stan.
The Return – Aug 3
In the Russian wilderness, two brothers face a range of new, conflicting emotions when their father – a man they know only through a single photograph – resurfaces. (Andrey Zvyagintsev, 2003, Russia, 1:50, NR)
Woman in the Dunes – Aug 10
An entomologist misses the last bus home when exploring for insects in a series of sand dunes, and is persuaded by local villagers to spend the night in a house at the bottom of the sandpit. A young widow lives there alone, forced by the villagers to dig the sand that they sell to nearby cities for construction. (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1964, Japan, 2:27, NR)
Embrace of the Serpent – Aug 17
German explorer and his local guide search for a rare healing plant. (Ciro Guerra, 2015, Colombia, 2:05, NR)