Brothers Quay - Institute Benjamenta "Can You Hear Me"

[filiuscarlovia]

Is this not one of the greatest sequences in the history of film?

[KireHughes]

Very powerful!

[saravlinder]

I love Robert Walser, I love Brothers Quay and I absolutely loved this movie. strongly fragile. well hazy, but just as the dance of life can be..

[floweringsilverzero]

probably one of the most heartwrenching/beautiful scenes ever for me

[TheNataliaRR]

This shy to go piss off in UK have not blue but blue many kinds of blue eyes... What have you done to blue eyes, they so shy.

[TheNataliaRR]

Polish in UK could make like each day you going 22:00 home, next you, next you, and they shy go piss off in british work. I should say, go, go, go! Just go! They will think, I have smart plan.

[TheNataliaRR]

Where is no electric, there are you people, machines came, you cant be like always.

[TheNataliaRR]

You people will stay global, until you will know, machines are life.

[TheNataliaRR]

Stop this machines, make books, that if dog is life, they are life, just speak to them in air like me about Romanovs history last tsar and car means in polish tsar, you see, machines are tsar even, are you shy?

[TheNataliaRR]

We all going global to Poland (only where electric is) just machines are life and they cant be in society and they got truth knowledge about Romanovs history.

[0Cudzoziemka0]

Thanks about sharing,but does anyone knows who composed this harmonic hymn sang by servants? I have the Lech Jankowski soundtrack and this song isn´t there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks a lot!

[StevenLoos]

One of my favorite movies. I keep returning to this scene for its beautiful sense of surrealism, and expressionism.

[VirtualInfocalypse]

if you like such psychological films - check out "Begotten". Just type in "Begotten film" in google an watch it on google videos for free :)

[lexo30]

I love the work of the writer who wrote the novel that this film is based on (Robert Walser), but never having seen the film, this clip does not make me want to watch it. It's way too precious and mannered. But then, trying to film Walser's work is probably a bad idea anyway. This clip certainly doesn't persuade me otherwise.

[CavalierBizarre]

Walser's works do indeed seem considerably difficult to adapt. I am of the opinion that this film is best approached without any rigid attachment to the original work and find it immensely beautiful in its own right.

[ingridspringrid]

it's so beautiful.

[Strawberryzful]

Watching this out of sequence is very strange. The actress is very familiar.

[Amnesiac1986]

Its Alice Krige, probably best known as the borg queen in Star Trek.

[Amnesiac1986]

Just seen this film as I liked all of their short films. This was great, I didn't have a clue what any of it meant but that didn't really matter. This was my favourite scene.

[IshtarMnezeth]

I still need to see this whole movie.

[zedslivingdead]

It's on here somewhere...

[mummy923]

Alice is so very beautiful(L)

[sardonicsteve]

This is one of my favorite scenes from this movie. Thanks for uploading this!

[peste1355]

Excellent! This movie is wonderful and Alice Kriege is amazing and very very beautyful!

[sallypenn1985]

Pere Ubu is presenting Ubu Roi at Southbank Centre on the 24 & 25th of April.The performance features the sop-motion animation, projections and stage design by The Brothers Quay! A great opportunity to see their talent on a stage.

[PowerAndThePassion]

Beautiful.......

[psylocke7]

She is stunning!

[Carlo81]

I used to watch this exact scene, over and over and over, on DVD, so it's cool that someone posted this.

It's a great film, too (one of the most beautiful visually that you'll probably ever see).

[Carlo81]

I'm also a huge fan of the book it's based on "Jakob Von Gutten" -so I was a bit disappointed that the Brothers Quay sucked all of the humor out of the novel (the novel is actually very comedic). The film translates the obesseive, fetishized, bizarreness of the novel, but all the humor is completely lost.

I still love the film, though. It stands on it's own apart from the novel.

[lars3939]

is it not based on the same named book? sorry new to this film and just seen this clip

[rulru111]

its based off of robert walser's JAKOB VON GUTTEN

[Thecorrectopinion]

Wow...

[Sneeky666999]

About the most amazing thing in the world of Art.

[phillijv]

You're right, she was Christabella in Silent Hill - her name is Alice Krige. She also played the Borg Queen in Star Trek: First Contact.

[nightowl685]

im a bit confused. who were those people? why did alice krige seem so terrified? what did the circle mean? this was beatifully done all around, but i must confess i can't make sense of it. is it metaphorical? any help would be appreicated, thanks:)

[Ultrasecond]

Yes, it's very heavily steeped in metaphor, but not all of it is supposed to mean something - a lot of it is about the feeling behind it.

[phyfell001]

amazing performance here by Alice Krige; very surreal...

[mandigal]

i hawe a question about a sound comparing with scenes when jacob thinkin something or talking - strange but i hawe v. of benjamenta institute without that sound did u guys all hawe it in the movie? or is just some expanson to the youtube v.? :/

[Maldo666]

Encoding problem...

[roxasdestiny]

Oh and that chick looks like christabella from silent hill yknow.

[roxasdestiny]

I tot love the brothers quay.

[mandigal]

its givin me a hope for humans if we hawe these kind like a quay brothers who dosint care only about cash but mostly for making a god part of art

[richragsdale]

this movie is soooo good

everything is perfect

the music - the photography - the acting - the lighting

[roxasdestiny]

this is freaky when it's set to tool music....and strange as hell without it.

[toolkyuss]

ooo which song? something off lateralus?

[Aspenly]

Your an idiot, toolkyuss. The idea that something as awful as Tool would be in this film is laughable.

[toolkyuss]

Why am I an idiot for liking Tool? As far as I'm concerned Tool trumps anything the Bros. Quay have done. Have you seen Morgasmo, with the movie set to Tool. It's perfect. Dont be so narrow-minded, and such an ass.

[beowulven]

What's "Matrix"?

[milaeighteen]

Aren't there some bits from "Stille Nacht III" in there?

[anaxorandyll]

who the fuck cares about the matrix?

[NikolaNPavlovic]

this masterpiece is probably better than matrix, a movie also brothers-made, but "this dream called human life" is 4 years older than matrix, and it looks as if its 40 years older...

[Ultrasecond]

"Better than matrix" - lol, what a lame comparison. The matrix is just a decent entertaining hollywood action film outclassed by countless other better hollywood action films. Comparing that to this is like comparing a McDonalds Cheeseburger to some rare filet mignon from a world-class chef.

[NikolaNPavlovic]

You are right yes, but, i was refering to some top lists of best movies ever, that were made by "smart people" (the top lists), and you can see matrix in those lists, and other shitty craft-movies. This is art for me. Long live brothers quay!