In this episode, we feature a conversation with the legendary filmmaker, Victor Kossakovsky, about his recent film GUNDA.I have been a fan of Kossakovsky’s work ever since seeing one of his first films, THE BELOVS (1993), his portrait of simple village life, sometimes tender and sometimes harsh, captured mostly in a steady observational gaze until the last scene where we are shaken by the filmmakers camera work. In Kossakovsky’s latest film, GUNDA, again Kossakovsky delivers simplicity, tenderness, and a last sequence that makes the ground shake. GUNDA is not the masterpiece within Kossakovsky’s body of work, but a masterpiece of cinema. Experiential cinema in its purest form, GUNDA chronicles the unfiltered lives of a mother pig, a flock of chickens, and a herd of cows with intimacy. Using stark, transcendent black and white cinematography and the farm's ambient soundtrack, director Victor Kossakovsky invites audiences to slow down and experience life as his subjects do, taking in their world with a magical patience and an otherworldly perspective. GUNDA asks us to meditate on the mystery of animal consciousness, and reckon with the role humanity plays in it. Eka Tsotsoria moderates the conversation.GUNDA opens on December 11, 2020, for an exclusive one-week run on virtual cinema at Laemmle Theatres in Los Angeles and Film Forum in New York City.