WHAT REMAINS

THREE DOUBLE BILLS / SIX FILMS

PROGRAM

Three comparative programmes move from the traces we keep, through unstable continuity, toward the possibility of reclaiming the self.

01

FRIDAY / TRACES

REMEMBER

Can we choose what remains after loss?

Promotional still of Hiroko in the snow from Love Letter
01

Love Letter

Shunji Iwai

Japan — 1995

6:00 pm / FRIDAY

A
Official promotional poster for Three Colours: Blue
02

Three Colours: Blue

Krzysztof Kieślowski

France / Poland / Switzerland — 1993

8:15 pm / FRIDAY

B

One film preserves traces of loss while the other attempts to erase them.

02

SATURDAY / FRAGMENTS

RECONSTRUCT

If memory can no longer verify the self, what can hold identity together?

Promotional apartment still of Anthony and Anne from The Father
03

The Father

Florian Zeller

United Kingdom / France — 2020

4:30 pm / SATURDAY

A
Promotional key art featuring Leonard and his tattooed records from Memento
04

Memento

Christopher Nolan

United States — 2000

6:30 pm / SATURDAY

B

One film reveals dependence on others for continuity while the other constructs an illusion of control through external records.

03

SUNDAY / THRESHOLDS

RECLAIM

When a life is manufactured for spectators, is escape enough to reclaim the self?

Promotional performance still of CHAM from Perfect Blue
05

Perfect Blue

Satoshi Kon

Japan — 1997

4:30 pm / SUNDAY

A
Promotional mosaic poster for The Truman Show
06

The Truman Show

Peter Weir

United States — 1998

6:15 pm / SUNDAY

B

One film reconstructs identity within the public gaze while the other imagines agency through leaving an externally authored world.