Film
Woman in the Dunes
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September 2014
Tuesday September 23, 2014
Performances no longer available.
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Part of
BAMcinématek 2014
series Nonesuch Records on Film
Directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara | 1964
With Eiji Okada, Kyoko Kishida
“Filmed with a palpable physicality that remains extraordinary.”
—Time Out London
This startlingly modernist puzzle film concerns an amateur insect enthusiast (Okada) who travels to a barren desert in search of a rare beetle—and finds himself trapped at the bottom of a dune, unable to leave, with an enigmatic woman. From this Kafkaesque premise emerges an erotically charged tale of sex and sand, shot in shimmering silvery monochrome and set to a shattering avant-garde score by the great Toru Takemitsu.