YOGA+FILM

Some films truly come into their own when you slow down and sharpen your focus. With our unique yoga-and-film experiences, we aim to deepen the viewing experience. Prior to selected screenings, you can take part in a yin or hatha yoga session at our in-house Surya Yoga Studio, with a short break in between. The yoga session helps cultivate calm and focus, attuning you to the films we present here.

In April, we screen the Vietnamese documentary HAIR, PAPER, WATER… you enter an unfamiliar world where even a falling drop is audible. Belgian director Nicolas Graux and Vietnamese director Trương Minh Quý follow Cao Thị Hậu—born sixty years ago in a cave—as she teaches her grandchildren the endangered Rục language: word by word, memory by memory. It is cinema as transmission—intimate, patient, and tender. The weight of an everyday gesture is as profound as that of a life lesson.

In June, we screen SPRING, SUMMER, FALL, WINTER… AND SPRING: forget the raw violence of his earlier work, South Korean director Kim Ki-duk delivered his most serene masterpiece with this film. On a remote mountain lake drifts a monastery where an old monk and his apprentice live through the seasons of existence. It is a nearly wordless tale about the inevitable cycle of life—from childhood innocence to final atonement.