Film Series
Peter Brook: Behind the Camera
On the occasion of the US premiere of Battlefield—visionary director Peter Brook’s return to the BAM Next Wave Festival and to the source material of his groundbreaking staging of The Mahabharata—BAMcinématek surveys Brook’s equally iconoclastic film work. Like his theater productions, Brook’s films shed new light on often well-known texts, employing indelible images and sometimes radical aesthetic devices to cut to the heart of a subject. His work—adventurous, stimulating, and richly sensorial—is an ongoing search for the essential truths of human nature.
Brook’s legendary staging of the Hindu epic is a transcendent, singular work of art.
The seeds of Brook’s genius are apparent in his take on the satirical ballad opera.
New Wave icons Jeanne Moreau and Jean-Paul Belmondo star in this haunting romance.
Brook’s account of the life of Russian mystic G. I. Gurdjieff is a trancey experience.
Brook’s long unseen assault on Vietnam-era complacency is a political wake up call.
Brook’s adaptation of William Golding’s novel is a searing evocation of social breakdown.
Brook’s legendary staging of Peter Weiss’ play is intense, profound, and provocative.
This big screen Proust adaptation is a surprisingly sexy, sumptuous, and lively affair.
Brook’s elemental take on Shakespeare’s towering tragedy has an almost primeval power.