UPCOMING SCREENINGS
110 W. BROADWAY - EUGENE, OREGON
Filmmaker in person.
(2005; 96 min.) Over two fever-dream nights in the Hotel Biron of Paris 1906, poet
Rainer Maria Rilke writes his epic lament, "Requiem For a Friend", as
a tribute to his friend, the artist Paula Modersohn-Becker, who died
shortly after giving birth to her first child. Fast forward one
hundred years to a group of three actresses staging his "Requiem" in
Berkeley California as an installation performance art work based in
the central drama of Rilke's prose: of a woman caught between choosing
a life devoted to Art or to Motherhood.
"...a marvel of
mature emotion and deep wisdom, few films have been able to explore
the issues surrounding death with such grace and intelligence." -- Phil Hall, filmthreat.com (5 stars out of five)
"In 'The Greater Circulation' we are enchanted and indeed haunted, not only by the
profound trajectory of Rilke's life and work, but also by Alli's ability to tell stories
within stories, to make the invisible visible, and to bring to earth what can only be
truly grasped through spiritual vision." -- Cedrus Monte, Jungian Analyst
