Baltic Cinema: L’Invenzione di Morel (Morel’s Invention)
Emidio Greco Italy 1974 110’ (cert. PG)Italian with English subtitles | 35mm transferred to digital video
Baltic Cinema: L’Invenzione di Morel (Morel’s Invention)
Thu 25 September | 18:30
£6 Full price / £4 Students, under 18s, unwaged and 65+
A fever dream about images, memory and desire, Emidio Greco’s forgotten but masterful adaptation of Adolfo Bioy Casares’ novel The Invention of Morel screens in response to Rachel Lancaster and Laura Lancaster’s exhibition ‘Remember, Somewhere’.
A fugitive is washed up on a seemingly deserted rocky island. Out of nowhere, a group of tourists arrive, clad in 1920s high-society clothing, and though he fears being discovered, the fugitive begins to fall in love with one of them, a woman called Faustine (Anna Karina). She doesn’t seem to notice him — and it gradually becomes clear that something mysterious and powerful is keeping them apart.
What could be read as an abstract sci-fi or a story of unrequited love reveals itself as a profound treatise on the image, and a (prescient) appraisal of our wish to record and preserve memories.n
Doors open 18:30; Film starts 18:45. Baltic Kitchen is open until 18:30 for drinks, which you are welcome to take up to the cinema.
Baltic Cinema
Baltic Cinema is a new year-round cinema programme at Baltic, lighting up our Level 1 Cinema with the best new and archive films. Bringing otherwise rarely-screened work to the North East, Baltic Cinema also expands our exhibitions, offering a chance to explore further some of the themes they raise.
Baltic Cinema has five strands:
Currents presents new work from across the world
Sources expands on our exhibitions
Selected shows films selected by our artists and partners
Quayside Kino is a monthly screening for families and children
News From Home offers films on and from the North East, for the people who live here
All regular screenings take place in our Level 1 Cinema. In addition, you can catch free drop-in films in Front Room every week.
Baltic Cinema is supported by Film Hub North with National Lottery funding on behalf of
the BFI Film Audience Network.
Please note we cannot offer refunds on this event.
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