In central Nepal, tiny cable cars travel up and down the breathtaking mountain landscape, transporting pilgrims to the ancient Manakamana temple. Stephanie Spray and Pacho Velez from Harvard’s Sensory Ethnography Lab (the endlessly inventive hub behind earlier T/F selections Leviathan and Foreign Parts), present 11 different cable car journeys in full, each lasting nearly ten minutes (the same length as the rolls of super 16mm film on which they shoot). A miracle of nonfiction cinema casting, Spray and Velez’s carefully configured movie delivers captivating characters, one after another. With a hypnotic rhythm, this memorable work of slow cinema allows us to closely observe compelling faces and bodies responding to the camera, conveying everything from boredom to amusement to astonishment. (CB)