Film Screening: The Boy and the Heron
Thursday, May 8, 2025
8:15 PM–10:15 PM
Auditorium
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Due to inclement weather, this film screening has been moved indoors to the Manton Research Center auditorium.
How do directors use landscapes to interpret feelings of grief? What can cinematic landscapes teach us about grief? The Clark is the concluding venue for an area film series hosted by Williams College students examining how contemporary films work to pair grief and landscape, screening Studio Ghibli’s The Boy and the Heron (2023). As described by Studio Ghibli, in this film, “a young boy named Mahito yearning for his mother ventures into a world shared by the living and the dead. There, death comes to an end, and life finds a new beginning.” A fitting conclusion to a film festival about landscape and grief.
Free. Accessible seats available; for information, call 413 458 0524.
Image: The Boy and the Heron, Hayao Miyazaki, 2023
How do directors use landscapes to interpret feelings of grief? What can cinematic landscapes teach us about grief? The Clark is the concluding venue for an area film series hosted by Williams College students examining how contemporary films work to pair grief and landscape, screening Studio Ghibli’s The Boy and the Heron (2023). As described by Studio Ghibli, in this film, “a young boy named Mahito yearning for his mother ventures into a world shared by the living and the dead. There, death comes to an end, and life finds a new beginning.” A fitting conclusion to a film festival about landscape and grief.
Free. Accessible seats available; for information, call 413 458 0524.
Image: The Boy and the Heron, Hayao Miyazaki, 2023
