Solemn, symbolic, yet highly expressive, Holy Days is a meditation on life cycles. A string of vignettes driven by gestures and sound, with minimal dialogue and narrative, the film can be described as performative. Anri Sala’s rhapsodic video Long Sorrow, a compact allegory featuring a free jazz saxophonist’s dizzying solo atop a disused Berlin apartment block, opens the program in one of the series’s carte blanche selections. After the screenings, expect a discussion with the Filmmaker Narimane Mari.

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