A Sanctum Encounter gives a significant work of cinema something increasingly difficult to find:

protected time.

A small group gathers around one carefully selected film.

The complete work is experienced without interruption.

Nothing needs to be explained or immediately discussed.

Afterwards there is distance from the screen. Silence has its place. So do fresh air, coffee and unhurried conversation.

Later, we may return to selected passages and look again.

What did we actually see or hear? What did we remember? What did we add through interpretation, assumption or association?

There is no definitive reading to arrive at and no conclusion required.

Ordinarily, we give a film its running time.
In a Sanctum Encounter, we give the work a day.

No prior knowledge of cinema is required. Only a willingness to encounter the work.