Artist, Film Curator, Writer
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Upcoming Event:
Thursday, August 27 at 6.30pm
Film Screening at The Arts Club Dubai
Part of a film program curated by me. The events at The Arts Club are normally for members only, but I can add a limited number names to the guest list (free to attend).
If you’d like to watch this film, please contact me via this form. Add “Remake” in the subject line.
REMAKE (Ross McElwee, 2025, 114 min)
For forty years, Ross McElwee has made documentaries which blend autobiography and cultural observation. When his son Adrian died suddenly, the footage he had filmed of his son became something else entirely: a reckoning with what the camera captured, and what it could not. REMAKE traces the fragile bond the camera created between a father and son, and what remains of it now.
Ross McElwee has made closely observed and profoundly subjective documentaries about how his personal life intersects with the world at large. But the death of his son suddenly causes him to reassess his approach to filmmaking and to his own life’s work.
Read more here.