Gathering six works of cinematic portraiture, this program departs from conventional biography—no life-by-year timelines or plot-driven narratives—and adopts the portrait form: indirect depictions that expand the idea from different angles and return to a core question: how, within time, can a person be represented anew through cinema?

Here, a portrait is not a fixed likeness but an ongoing negotiation: the filmmaker’s choices, the subject’s self-presentation, the medium’s conventions, and the atmosphere of place, together shape how images are made, seen, and understood.

Zidane: a 21st Century Portrait turns a match into an experiment in seeing, revealing another face of the football legend between breath, focus, and reverie. Honor of the Knights abandons a hero’s arc for near-wordless drifting, the knights moving with wind, terrain, and time. Wittgenstein uses a black-box stage, witty dialogue, and reenactment to recast a philosophical icon as a comic portrait of language and desire.

Self and Others draws on Shigeo Gocho’s photographs, recordings, and letters, counterpointing the image’s absence with the voice’s presence and inviting us to meet the other—or ourselves—in the gaps time opens. In To Sang Fotostudio, portraiture becomes a negotiated rehearsal of “how I wish to be seen,” and, across Amsterdam’s Albert Cuypstraat, a group portrait of migration, work, and hope.

Finally, Being in a Place – A Portrait of Margaret Tait begins from the poet-filmmaker’s unrealized proposal, weaving archive, sound, and landscape to respond to her film-poetry practice—attentive to small particulars, duration, and place.

Each portrait becomes a confluence: the subject’s life experiences, the filmmaker’s way of seeing, the medium’s material and historical layers, and the viewer’s perception and imagination accumulate on a single figure.

Thus, the portrait stages multiple memories in the present act of seeing—life, visual, media, and cultural memories refract and rewrite one another. The person is not simply recounted but encountered anew in the shared, searching gaze of many eyes.