Silent Light (2007) Screening

Silent Light (2007) by Carlos Reygadas

Johan (Miriam Toews), a married Mennonite who maintains a quiet, simplistic lifestyle in rural Mexico, experiences a moral dilemma as a result of his passionate — and torturously public — affair with Marianne (Maria Pankratz), a neighbor. As he goes through the ritualistic motions of his daily life in a bucolic landscape, he is forced to weigh his love for Marianne against the survival of his marriage, his family and his deeply felt religious beliefs.

This film series is being presented as part of our current exhibition, The Unknown and Its Poetics, curated by Adrián S. Bará. Special thanks to our sponsor, Let it Shine, for supporting this series of films.