New ecologies of life, the sacredness of gesture, and the relocation of perspective were some of the themes explored during this rich session led by Jacopo Rasmi, Senior Lecturer at Jean Monnet University in Saint-Étienne. Revisiting the work of Michelangelo Frammartino—whose filmography draws heavily on the codes of anthropological cinema—this session provided an opportunity to question the rites associated with rural life and to explore the interconnections and cycles of living beings. Drawing on the four Pythagorean kingdoms (human, animal, vegetal, and mineral), Le Quattro Volte transforms the ordinary by paying close attention to the seemingly mundane gestures that animate life, which suddenly acquire a certain mysticism. The session also connected Frammartino’s work to approaches found in aspects of Arte Povera, while examining spaces, cycles, and the ways of inhabiting and narrating places and forms of life unique to them.