(OTOSHIANA, Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japan 1962, 97 min., Japanese/subtitles)

When a miner leaves his employers and treks out with his young son to become a migrant worker, he finds himself moving from one eerie landscape to another, intermittently followed (and photographed) by an enigmatic man in a clean white suit, and eventually coming face to face with his inescapable destiny. Teshigahara’s (Woman in the Dunes, Antonio Gaudi) debut feature. Pitfall is an unsettling ghost story, a portrait of human alienation, and a compellingly surreal critique of soulless industry.