Film Special: The Mill and the Cross

The Polish director takes us deep inside Flemish master Pieter Brueghel’s The Way to Calvary, a 16th-century Passion painting depicting more than 500 figures. From physical staging to layered CGI, Majewski’s film is a dazzling master class in visual composition as he animates a dozen characters, from carousing peasants and murderous redcoats to the painter himself. D: Lech Majewski, Poland, 2011, 92 minutes 

Cosponsored by the Hood Museum of Art

6:30-6:45 pm: Pre-film Spotlight Talk in the Loew Auditorium with Curator T. Barton Thurber