May 21

Werner PICK - Sans Soleil & Les Maitres Fous

SANS SOLEIL. (1983, CHRIS MARKER) An image of three happy children on a windy day in Iceland links up with women at a cat memorial in Japan; Hitchcock's Vertigo re-created on the Bay Area locations where it was shot; an exchange of glances at a market in Guinea-Bissau; the connections and juxtapositions are extreme, but seemingly effortless. "One of the key non-fiction films of our time... it registers like a poem one might find in a time capsule." - Jonathan Rosenbaum.
Plus LES MAÎTRES FOUS (1955) "Jean Rouch's seminal ethnographic short about the Hauka of West Africa, whose violent trance rituals imitate and mock British colonialism." - Rosenbaum. "An absolute must." - Herzog.

Q&A with Werner Herzog: Monday, 7pm