The Lower Depths The Cinema of Shōhei Imamura

A retrospective exploring the singular and inventive cinematic work of Japanese filmmaker Shōhei Imamura.

This retrospective focuses on Shōhei Imamura, one of the most important filmmakers to emerge from Japan’s post-war era. His films are characterized by an unruly, inventive, and anthropological approach to cinema. The exhibition explores his work, which rejects official histories in favor of the messy realities of everyday life, combining formal invention with an inexhaustible curiosity about the human condition.