From a carnavalesque figure in Fellini’s version, increasingly pale, cadaveric and ultimately having sex with a doll, to a witty lover past his prime, who unknowingly runs into the arms of a similarly passion-weary Dracula in Albert Serra's Story of My Death, Casanova is an unexpected key figure to make sense of life, death, pleasure, and modernity. Shit will be turned into gold, or the contrary, and heady air will blow from a corrupted XVIIth century about to be swept away by French Revolution.
The screening will be introduced by Anja Kirschner and Nora Barbier (who was Albert Serra's production assistant on The Death of Louis XIV) and be followed by a Skype Q&A with the director Albert Serra. Born in Banyoles (Spain) in 1975, Albert Serra studied Hispanic Philology and Theory of Literature in Barcelona. Història de la meva mort (2013) is his third feature movie, and received the Golden Leopard at Locarno Festival 2013. The same year his work was exhibited at Centre Pompidou in Paris. In 2015, his video work Singularity was presented at the Catalan Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. His last movie, The Death of Louis XIV, starring Jean-Pierre Léaud in the title role, was part of the official selection of Cannes Festival 2016.
