Play of the Week: Rashomon

Rashomon

August 1950 •Japanese

Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

Naked Rashomon

July 1973 •Japanese

A marquis' mistress becomes pregnant with fraternal twins. He keeps the boy, but sends his bodyguard to dispose of the mother and the girl. Years later…

Perception

January 2009 •English

Perception explores the breach of experience that divides us all by glancing into the lives of three individuals: Clarissa, a young idealistic photographer who chooses to live as a homeless person on the streets of New York, supporting herself meal by meal by selling her photography from a blanket in Central Park; Ralph, a successful real estate salesman who struggles for balance against the cut-throat nature of his business; and Tobias, a perpetual student who gets fired a lot. Perception journeys through the same season of time from each character's point of view, detailing how presumption and mistaken intention leads to great misunderstanding. A moment, revisited from another point of view, takes new dimension--and the line between protagonist and antagonist blurs.

Into the Meridian

Invalid date •English

A musical audiovisual journey in four parts. A young man finds himself unexpectedly taking an audiovisual odyssey into a world of surreality, slowly recounting his memories, revealing the puzzle pieces that led him to where he is, and maybe how he can get out.

Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary

March 2002 •German

Documentarians Andre Heller and Othmar Schmiderer turn their camera on 81-year-old Traudl Junge, who served as Adolf Hitler's secretary from 1942 to 1945, and allow her to speak about her experiences. Junge sheds light on life in the Third Reich and the days leading up to Hitler's death in the famed bunker, where Junge recorded Hitler's last will and testament. Her gripping account is nothing short of mesmerizing.

White Noise

November 2019 •French

A reflection on the fate of humanity in the Anthropocene epoch, White Noise is a roller-coaster of a film, a whirlwind of sounds and images. The fourth feature-length work by Simon Beaulieu, this film essay plunges viewers into a subjective sensory adventure—a direct physical encounter with the information overload of daily life. White Noise transforms the imminent collapse of our civilization into a visceral aesthetic experience.

The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez

August 1983 •English

Forced to run from Texas Rangers after a heated misunderstanding leads to the death of a lawman, Mexican American farmer Gregorio Cortez sets off in desperate flight, evading a massive manhunt on horseback for days.

As You Are

January 2023 •English

A glimpse into a visual representation of memory; A Christmas-time series of meals, coffees, and movies, with friends, lovers, and housemates. Faced with the compounding of faces and places, each moment begins to collide with one another: voices are muddled, and faces are broken. How is memory created? How are they separated from one another?

Gandhi 3

August 2024 •Panjabi

A cocky young gang leader comes to learn the truth of a man’s heroic legacy from the past that he has stolen.

Wives on Strike: The Uprising

October 2024 •English

An honor graduate is kidnapped upon returning home. Driven by vengeance, his mother embarks on a bloody quest to rescue him, plunging into a violent and grisly ordeal.

Marbot

August 2024 •Indonesian

Malik, who returned home after living in the boarding school for six years, felt disappointed because he could not continue his studies and was instead told to become a Marbot by Nyak, which he considered a family inheritance job. Malik tried to find a way to keep the mosque alive as a Marbot, while studying and saving money to go to college. Will Malik prioritize his obedience to the mosque and his parents? Is it possible for him to still achieve higher education?

Two Minutes

May 2024 •English

Two brothers rob a corner shop only to be interrupted by their Nan.

The Thanksgiving Movie

November 2020 •English

Join Butterball the turkey and Missy the Dodo as they come to the rescue of Thanksgiving and embark on an unforgettable, clock-racing countdown to a holiday dinner. It's a Thanksgiving Movie for the ages.

Alpha

June 2019 •Dutch

Alpha shows the tense relationship between a son and his mother. Chiel is unable to associate with the religion of his mother and is resisting actively. Vera loses control over her adolescent teenager. Then, one evening, the pastor comes by to solve the conflict.

Mr. Blake At Your Service!

November 2023 •French

Since his wife's death, Andrew Blake is depressed. In an ultimate impetus, he leaves London to go back to France, in the house he met her. This journey through happy days memories won't go as planned.

Lui è mio padre

August 2020 •Italian

Several Questions That Make Us Happy

May 2007 •Korean

Several Questions That Make Us Happy is composed of six different stories in a omnibus way, describing mondern society's loneliness, misunderstanding between couples, trust with others, courtesy between lovers, and self-centered blame for others, etc. It is based on the sincere question why we are so unhappy and how I can make happiness.

Lee Sang That Lee Sang

November 2013 •Korean

The tragic genius poet Lee Sang had dual expressions of despair and longing. It's an expression captured perfectly in the portrait of the likeness of Lee Sang. Painted by his friend Koo Bon-woong, the painting reappears in an art gallery alleyway in the 1970s. Soon, the story unfolds about Koo Bon-woong and Lee Sang, the vagrants who started with him, and the imperial secrets buried in the 1930s.

Safer at Home

February 2021 •English

Two years into the pandemic, a group of friends throw an online party with a night of games, drinking and drugs. After taking an ecstasy pill, things go terribly wrong and the safety of their home becomes more terrifying than the raging chaos outside.