When Joseph Haydn completed his fourth and final oratorio at the beginning of 1801 the 69-year-old composer was famous throughout Europe. Born in 1732 as the son of a humble wheelwright, Haydn grew up in a rural, peasant environment. That such a child should make his way eventually to the position of court composer was an extremely rare occurrence. Even in his days at royal courts, however, Haydn still felt a close and intimate attachment to Nature and to life in the countryside. When Baron Gottfried van Swieten, then, presented to Hadyn a libretto on the theme of The Seasons, he found in the old composer a worthy partner in his own veneration for Nature.

In 1966, McLaren began a metamorphic film in which he explored the light and colour of Canada in this unfinished film.

Haydn’s Creation, the culmination of his life’s work, in a legendary 1986 performance conducted by Leonard Bernstein in the exquisite Baroque splendor of the Benedictine Abbey of Ottobeuren, Bavaria, now available on DVD for the first time. This spectacular performance also includes Bernstein’s spoken introduction to the performance —always an invaluable addition to any concert. This work, considered by many to be Haydn’s masterpiece, depicts the creation of the world as inspired by the texts of Genesis, the Book of Psalms and Milton’s Paradise Lost. Though deeply religious in conception, the oratorio gives a physical sense of the immensity of nature and the world’s creation.“The Creation gives us time to remember—and rejoice in— the purity and grace and fortitude of Nature, to restore our souls, to recover our moral strength, and to rediscover our power to praise”—Leonard Bernstein

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Poetry meets technology in this film about the cycle of the seasons. Narrated by William Shatner, and accompanied by a special digital "surround" recording of Antonio Vivaldi's The Four Seasons, the film takes audiences on a breathtaking trip through the eruption of spring, the growth of summer, the harvest and festivity of autumn, and the dormancy of winter. The beauty of the seasons is interspersed with a look at the earth as a planet, the sun as a star, and the human quest to understand the relationship between the two.

Seasons is an experimental video that weaves personal memory, movement, and the ephemeral nature of love into a poetic narrative across four acts. Each section corresponds to a season and a place: Winter in Japan, Spring in Korea, Summer in China, and Fall in Love. The first three acts are created using a "motion extract" technique, where only movement is captured, leaving a haunting black backdrop that frames the fleeting motions of life. These segments reflect the director's time spent working on projects in Japan, Korea, and China during the respective seasons, grounding each location in its temporality. The original audio from the filming process accompanies these visuals, immersing viewers in the specific textures of each place. In the final act, Fall in Love, the clarity of both video and sound dissolves into a blur, reflecting the elusiveness and fragility of love and memory. The faint echoes of the director’s conversations with a former partner linger in this obscured space, hinting at intimacy while withholding its full shape, leaving the audience to contend with the ambiguity of what remains. Through Seasons, the director captures not just the transience of time and place but also the impermanence of human connections, inviting viewers to reflect on the movements that define their own lives.

A tale of love, life, death, and destiny that spans continents and time. The story follows a couple destined to fall in love but kept apart by the machinations of a vengeful soul, and a 100-year odyssey through previous lifetimes for them to finally come together. Motola will play Eiko, a young woman who escapes her family’s expectations of a traditional life in Japan but finds herself entangled in a romantic web in New York. Competing for Eiko’s affection is Yutaka, to be portrayed by Matsudo.

A terminally ill pop-music singer's retirement is complicated by the arrival of a defecting scientist and a CIA agent.

It’s summer, and the whole Kim family has gathered in Daegu for the ancestral rites. This includes Seong-jin, the eldest grandson of the family, whose father has taken on the family business: a tofu factory. After the rites, family tensions start to rise and Seong-jin drops the bombshell that he won’t be taking on the family business.

Martha and Jed Richards live in Oregon in 1862. They and their two daughters moved there to make a new life, but the daughters died of cholera along the way. This has left Martha an emotional wreck, and she is unable to move on with her life. That is until an orphan named Danny comes to live with them. Jed immediately accepts Danny as his son, but Martha is still too upset to be able to love him. As time passes, however, she finds herself more and more able to accept him as part of the family.