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"Who dares it has no courage
To whom it is missing feels well
Who owns it is bitterly poor
Who is successful is damaged
Who gives it is as hard as stone
Who loves it stays alone"

Institute

Or This Dream People Call Human Life

Benjamenta

Original Music by Leszek Jankowski

With The Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra

"From far off I am being approached
All around hangs a slumber upon these halls,
and things as yet unfathomed still occur
This fairytale will tell you last."

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Leszek Jankowski ~ Institute Benjamenta,

Or This Dream People Call Human Life

Brothers Quay Fot Mariusz Kubik Wrocław (Poland), July 24, 2010

Brothers Quay: Stephen and Timothy Quay (born June 17, 1947 in Norristown, Pennsylvania) are American identical twin brothers better known as the Brothers Quay or Quay Brothers. They are influential stop-motion animators. They are the recipients of the 1998 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design for their work on the play The Chairs.

The Brothers Quay deliver a vivid black and white dream of a movie, based on Kafka-predecessor Robert Walser’s Jakob von Gunten, a surrealistic 1909 novel about a mysterious institute where men learn to become servants. Lech’s sparse, haunting soundtrack, complete with strained strings, lonely trumpets, rumbling bass, haunting voices and intermittent silences makes it a perfect accompaniment, which also stands on its own as an eerie listening experience for fans of challenging music.

Institute

Or This Dream People Call Human Life

Benjamenta

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Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life (1995)

Ce qu'on appelle la vie humaine (France)
Institut Benjamenta oder Dieser Traum, den man menschliches Leben nennt (Germany)

Directed by Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay
Original Music by Lech Jankowski
Starring Mark Rylance, Alice Krige, Gottfried John
Release Date: 23 August 1996 (USA)
Production Co: Image Forum, Koninck Studios, Pandora Filmproduktion

Jakob von Gunten arrives at the Institute Benjamenta, a training school for domestic service, to enroll for its course--a single endlessly repeated lesson. He develops an unresolved and unarticulated attraction to the principal's beautiful wife, while attempting to penetrate the physical and mystical aspects of the Benjamenta's school.

With seven other men, he studies under Lisa: absurd lessons of movement, drawing circles, and servility. He asks for a better room. No other students arrive and none leave for employment. Johannes is unhappy, imperious, and detached from the school's operation.

Lisa is beautiful, at first tightly controlled, then on the verge of breakdown. There's a whiff of incest.

Institute Benjamenta,
or This Dream People Call Human Life I

Jakob is drawn to Lisa, and perhaps she to him. As winter sets in, she becomes catatonic.
Things get worse;

Fräulein Benjamenta ~ Institute Benjamenta,
Or This Dream People Call Human Life '95

Johannes notes that all this has happened since Jakob came. Is there any cause and effect?

Institute Benjamenta,
or This Dream People Call Human Life II

Brilliant English animators The Brothers Quay create their first feature-length live-action film in this tale of a dilapidated boarding school for the teaching of servants run by a brother and sister in which the curriculum is the repetition of one single lesson. When Jacob, a young man, enrolls in the school, he becomes entangled in the strange lives of the students and headmasters alike. Called by director Terry Gilliam, "The most visually beautiful and hauntingly humorous film I have seen in the last 300 years.

Complete credited cast:

Mark Rylance ... Jakob
Alice Krige ... Lisa Benjamenta
Gottfried John ... Herr Benjamenta
Daniel Smith ... Kraus
Joseph Alessi ... Pepino
Jonathan Stone ... Hebling
César Sarachu ... Inigo (as Cesar Sarachu)
Peter Lovstrom ... Jorgenson
Uri Roodner ... Schilinski
Peter Whitfield ... Null

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Product Details
Actors: Alice Krige, Gottfried John, Mark Rylance, Daniel Smith, Joseph Alessi
Directors: Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay
Format: Import, Blu-ray, Widescreen
Subtitles: English
Region: Region 2 (Read more about DVD formats.)
Number of discs: 1
Studio: bfi
Run Time: 104 minutes
ASIN: B003VV1VJ4

Product Description

United Kingdom released, Blu-Ray/Region B : it WILL NOT play on regular DVD player, or on standard US Blu-Ray player. You need multi-region Blu-Ray player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 ), English ( Dolby DTS-HD Master Audio ), English ( Subtitles ), WIDESCREEN (1.66:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Booklet, Interactive Menu, Scene Access, Short Film, Trailer(s), SYNOPSIS: ***ATTENTION***This is a Dual Format Edition, which contains both Blu-Ray & DVD versions*** Jakob arrives at the Institute Benjamenta (run by brother and sister Johannes and Lisa Benjamenta) to learn to become a servant. With seven other men, he studies under Lisa: absurd lessons of movement, drawing circles, and servility. He asks for a better room. No other students arrive and none leave for employment. Johannes is unhappy, imperious, and detached from the school's operation. Lisa is beautiful, at first tightly controlled, then on the verge of breakdown. There's a whiff of incest. Jakob is drawn to Lisa, and perhaps she to him. As winter sets in, she becomes catatonic. Things get worse; Johannes notes that all this has happened since Jakob came. Is there any cause and effect? SCREENED/AWARDED AT: Fantasporto Awards, Stockholm Film Festival,

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"Are we thy students all now forsaken
it seems thus; it is thus.
When we eat, the fork will tell us how
thou didst desire us to hold it,
and the knowledge that we do so
will remind us of thee."