Screening of Andrea Segre’s film “Molecole”

Event Date:
November 17, 2022 – 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM

Location:
Building: COED Room: 010

Join the Department of Languages and Culture Studies for a screening of Italian Film Director and Sociologist Andrea Segre’s Molecole. The screening will be followed by a lecture from the Director for students of Italian language, Italian Film, Film Studies, International Studies, as well as any film aficionado!

About the film:

Opening the historic 77th edition of the Venice Film Festival, Andrea Segre’s Molecole, is a haunting meditation on virus-lockdown in Venice. As part of the Biennale’s Out of Competition slate, Molecole was presented as the pre-opening film of the festival, a fitting personal exploration of the stillness and absurdity of our times. Venice needs no introduction: site of glamorized cine-fanfare, home to picturesque canals, and host to one of the most prestigious film festivals in the world. But Molecole strays from the classic sybarite, hedonistic depiction of Italy; Venice as captured by Segre is far more intimate. His is a depiction of a fragile lagoon, of its frayed edges – a rumination on the very fragility of life itself. Segre digs into the lie behind the idyllic, showing us the consequences of over-tourism, the crushing demands of capitalism, and the spiraling geological issues facing the water-bound city. As the film fades in, a few words from Albert Camus’ The Stranger float on the black screen, setting the tone: “Throughout the whole absurd life I’d lived, a dark wind had been rising toward me from somewhere deep in my future, across years that were still to come.” These words seem appropriate, not only since they’re situated within the context of an almost Camusian year, but because Segre later tells us Camus was his elusive father’s favourite writer.