In writer Susan Sontag’s final film, Venice becomes stage and subject, in dialogue with a lovers’ weekend. Dancer Lucinda Childs stars as a tourist of melancholy, memory and fading romance.
Sontag’s adaption of her story for the screen creates cinema at the intersection of Venice and the narrative, as her protagonist drifts through the end of an affair and ‘a city that even the Italians visit as if they were a foreigner’.
Against the backdrop of a vacation in the floating city and its lingering past unfolds a relationship that will similarly soon be history, as on screen dialogue and offscreen conversation blur the present and future, conjuring a contemplative tourism of both place and the mind.
Introduced by writer Brian Dillon (Suppose a Sentence, Essayism, In the Dark Room).
Italy 1983 dir Susan Sontag 71 min
Curated by the Architecture Foundation
This title has been locally classified
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Barbican Cinema 1
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Barbican Cinema 1 is located within the main Barbican building on Level -2. Head to Level G and walk towards the Lakeside Terrace where you’ll find stairs and lifts to take you down to the venue floor.
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Silk Street, London
EC2Y 8DS
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