Adapted from a novel by László Krasznahorkai, Werckmeister Harmonies unfolds in an unknown time in an unnamed village. One day, a mysterious circus – complete with an enormous stuffed whale and a shadowy, demagogue-like figure known as the Prince – arrives and appears to awaken a kind of madness in the citizens that builds inexorably toward violence.
In thirty-nine hypnotic long takes engraved in ghostly black and white, auteur Béla Tarr and codirector-editor Ágnes Hranitzky conjure an apocalyptic vision of dreamlike dread and fathomless beauty.
Béla Tarr’s 1988 classic Damnation also screens from Fri 16 Aug
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