Frammartino’s wondrous and continually surprising four-part meditation on man and nature traces the glorious cycle of life by way of the rituals of rural folk in the Italian region of Calabria. A visual and philosophical experience unlike any other, Le Quattro Volte (The Four Times) is both highly focused yet startlingly cosmic; inspired by Pythagoras’s belief in “four-fold transmigration” – by which the soul is passed from human to animal to vegetable to mineral – this hypnotic work became an immediate surprise hit at the Toronto, New York, and Telluride Film Festivals, and was awarded the Best European Film Prize at Cannes in 2010. A dialogue-free film - no subtitles. (88 min.)

“Reinvents the very act of perception… profound, expansive and unsettling.” –A.O. Scott, The New York Times