Sunday, July 30, 2023
VIKELAS POOL, HERMOUPOLIS
21:00
Eaux d’Artifice
Kenneth Anger, USA, 1953, 13′
Against the backdrop of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, a woman dressed in a Renaissance gown immerses in a magical nocturnal reverie in Tivoli’s Villa d’Este. With the title’s wordplay alluding to the fluid nature of the human gaze, the seemingly simpler and more unstrained film in the oeuvre of the iconic director remains an ode to the sweeping power of water and the moving image to elicit desire.
