Man Follows Birds

The work Uzbek filmmaker Ali Khamraev has only recently come to the attention of Western audiences, thanks to the hard work of France’s Festival of Three Continents in Nantes; Kent Jones, director of the World Cinema Foundation; and distributor Alla Verlotsky. Jones writes “an artist of rock-solid humanism and amazing expressive power, Khamraev is a towering figure, a wizard with landscapes (they all seem charged, often enchanted) and an instinctual genius with actors.” A mind-bending portrait of an orphan’s adolescence in a gritty medieval village life, this revelatory 1975 feature evokes the mystic expressionism and baroque delirium of Parajanov and Dovshenko.
Bing Theater |  Included in double-bill, $5 admission for this film only | Tickets: 323 857-6010 or purchase online.