The mountain water in Hamaguchi's 'Evil Does Not Exist' moves like time itself - steady, relentless, deceptively gentle. In the Japanese village of Mizubiki, where crystal streams carve ancient paths through forest floor, a single father named Takumi harvests wood with the same deliberate rhythm as the water's flow. This is where our story begins, though like the stream itself, its true source lies somewhere higher up the mountain, in the collision between urban ambition and rural permanence.

In the winter of 1976, while the rest of the world was celebrating the American Bicentennial, a small crew of filmmakers led by Tony Maylam trudged through the snow-laden streets of Innsbruck, Austria. Their mission: to capture the essence of the Winter Olympics on celluloid. The result was "White Rock," a documentary that would redefine the visual language of sport.

The La Jolla Institute for Immunology stands like a modernist fortress on a sun-drenched mesa of San Diego, the sandstone exterior hiding the brilliance within. It was here, on what passes for a cold morning in this part of the world, that I found myself in the office of Dr. Shane Crotty, Chief Scientific Officer and principal investigator to discuss his paper on the immunological memory of SARS-CoV-2, which just happened to be the most cited paper of the pandemic.