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I’m hosting a screening of Remake by Ross McElwee at The Arts Club Dubai on Thursday, August 27.
It’s part of a film programme I’m working on for their members, and I can add a limited number names to the guest list. If you’d like to attend this screening, please reply to this email with REMAKE in the subject line and I will send you more details. First come, first serve.
If you are not familiar with The Arts Club Dubai, it is the first international outpost of the London private members club The Arts Club founded in 1863. The Dubai outpost was launched in 2020 and hosts cultural programmes that are exclusive for members and their guests.
Remake premiered at the Venice Film Festival last year where I saw it. I will introduce the film and have a general discussion with the audience after the screening.
REMAKE (Ross McElwee, 2025, 114 min)
In Remake, filmmaker Ross McElwee turns his lens on the passage of time and the uneasy space between documenting life and understanding it. The film traces McElwee’s relationship with his son Adrian, and the fragile bond the camera created between them while Adrian was alive, and now that he’s gone.
Drawing from decades of footage, some shot by Ross, some by Adrian, the film becomes a layered excavation of memory and image making. Threaded through is the ghost of another project: a stalled effort by Hollywood to fictionalise McElwee’s 1986 classic, Sherman’s March. What emerges is a work shaped by absence and propelled forward by the urge to keep looking, even when there’s no clear story left to tell.
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