A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence

  • April 3, 2016 / 18:00
  • April 27, 2016 / 19:00

Director: Roy Andersson
Cast: Holger Andersson, Nils Westblom, Viktor Gyllenberg
Sweden, Germany, Norway, France, Denmark, 2014, 101’, color
Swedish, English with Turkish subtitles

Often mentioned alongside Ingmar Bergman, master director Roy Andersson completes his “living” trilogy following Songs from the Second Floor (2000) and You, the Living (2007). The film follows two world-weary travelling salesmen–like modern times’ Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, they provide an insight into a chaotic world of the present, past and future. At once absurd, harsh, surreal, raging, darkly comic, and disturbing, A Pigeon... reminds us of the grandeur of life, the vulnerability of man and its impending doom, like a pigeon perched on a branch.

2014 Venice Golden Lion

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Lost River

The One I Love

The One I Love

Blind

Blind

A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence

A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence

Lightning 1st Part

Lightning 1st Part

Lightning 2nd Part

Lightning 2nd Part

Coherence

Coherence

Upstream Color

Upstream Color

Piercing Brightness

Piercing Brightness

Time Lapsus

Time Lapsus

Waking Life

Waking Life

When Animals Dream

When Animals Dream

Why Can't I Be Tarkovsky?

Why Can't I Be Tarkovsky?

Trailer

A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence

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