Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life (1995) Rating: Starring: Gottfied John, Alice Krige, Mark Rylance, Daniel Smith Director: The Brothers Quay Category: Drama Studio: Kino Video Subtitles: [None] Length: 101 mins     "A Great Feast Of Fetishized Imagery."-New York Magazine Heralded as "the strangest, prettiest, most mesmerizing debut since Eraserhead" by The Village Voice, Institute Benjamenta is the first live action feature from acclaimed animators the Brothers Quay (Street Of Crocodiles). Institute Benjamenta combines the fantastic, the mystical and the fairytale in a beautiful, shadowy reverie as astonishing and unique as any of the Quays' animations.The titular academy is a dilapidated, moribund boarding school for the training of servants, whose curriculum consists of the endless repetition of one single lesson.Jakob (Mark Rylance, Angels And Insects) enrolls at the Institute and becomes embroiled in the world of his fellow pupils and that of the siblings Lisa Benjamenta (Alice Krige) and her brother (Fassbinder regular Gottfried John) who run the school. Inspired by the writings of the Swiss author Robert Walser, and gorgeously photographed by Nic Knowland, Institute Benjamenta lures the audience through the labyrinthine corridors of the Institute and the entangled lives of its haunted occupants.               Critic's Reviews Ed Scheid Boxoffice Online Read Review