Screening and discussion
Memoria
12 Oct 2024
12 Oct 2024
The event is over
Jessica Holland, an orchid grower in Colombia, goes to Bogotá to visit her sick sister. She strikes up a friendship with Agnès, a French archaeologist supervising the construction of a tunnel beneath the Andes. She also meets a musician, the young Hernan. Every night, Jessica’s sleep is disturbed by a strange, threatening “bang”.
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Memoria, 2021, 135 min, DCP, colour, original version with French sub-titles
Colombia / Thailand / United Kingdom / Mexico / France / Germany / Qatar, 2021, 135 min, DCP, colour, original version with French subtitles
With Tilda Swinton, Elkin Díaz, Jeanne Balibar, Juan Pablo Urrego
Jury Prize at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival
"Memoria is undoubtedly one of the best films ever made, or in any case, it seems like it: it gives the impression of realising or actualising something all at once - a faculty, a possibility, or several - the seeds of which had been carried within cinema up until this point, the very reason for which it was invented (not in one fell swoop, but gradually). [...] The starting point for Memoria is a multitude of things, places and ideas, but as a good film by its director, it is first and foremost oriented towards perception and emotion - in other words, in search of certain points (in the space and time of the film, for example, a particular point in a shot) where perception and emotion meet, coincide and collide.” Luc Chessel, Libération, 17 November 2021
Presented by Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Tilda Swinton.
Next screening 2 november
Where
Cinema 1, level 1
When
12 Oct 2024
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Memoria, 2021
©Kick the Machine Films, Burning, Anna Sanders Films, Match Factory Productions, ZDF-Arte and Piano, 2021