Event

Manakamana

Jun 20 - Jun 26

(Stephanie Spray and Pacho Velez, Nepal/USA, 2013, 118 min)

Friday, Jun 20 at 08:00PM
Saturday, Jun 21 at 08:00PM
Sunday, Jun 22 at 08:00PM
Monday, Jun 23 at 01:00PM
Monday, Jun 23 at 03:00PM
Monday, Jun 23 at 08:00PM
Tuesday, Jun 24 at 08:00PM
Wednesday, Jun 25 at 08:00PM
Thursday, Jun 26 at 08:00PM

A formal accomplishment as grand as the heights of the mountains it climbs, this ethnographic documentary is set entirely on a cable car that transports pilgrims through the mountains of Nepal towards their destination: the famous Manakamana Temple.

Formally pristine (composed of a series of medium frontal shots, roughly 8-9 minutes each in length, with gorgeous views outside the cable car over the Trisuli valley), what occurs in the film is a slowly emerging meditation on age, faith and class. Each wobble of the car on the cable, each moment between the inhabitantssome tense, some lovingtakes on a larger and more metaphysical meaning. In Manakamana, the microscopic contains multitudes.