Friday | October 29, 1999 9:15 pm

Saturday | October 30, 1999 3:00 pm

The Burmese Harp
(Biruma no Tategoto)

Screening on Film

Directed by Kon Ichikawa.
With Shoji Yasui, Rentaro Mikuni, Tatsuya Mihashi.
Japan, 1956, 35mm, black & white, 116 min.
Japanese with English subtitles.

Kon Ichikawa first attracted international acclaim with this hauntingly poetic saga of the transformation of a militaristic consciousness into a passionate dedication to humanity and Buddhism. A young Japanese soldier in Burma, horrified by the savagery of war, assumes the role of a Buddhist priest and tries to bury as many bodies as he can. From a script by his wife, Ichikawa’s ravishingly photographed film deftly examines what he termed "the pain of the age."

September 16 – October 30, 1999

Séance Screenings

January 17–March 2

The Reincarnations of Delphine Seyrig

January 27–February 9

Rosine Mbakam, 2025 McMillan-Stewart Fellow

February 1–9

The Illusory Tableaux of Georges Méliès

February 3–16

Activism and Post-Activism. Korean Documentary Cinema, 1981-2022

February 7–14

Fables of the Reconstruction. Nelson Carlo de Los Santos Arias

February 21–March 10

Ben Rivers, Back to the Land

February 22–April 5

Harvard Undergraduate Cinematheque

February 22

Make Way for Tomorrow. Carson Lund’s Eephus

February 23–24

Jessica Sarah Rinland’s Collective Monologue