Film Screening Programmed for The Arts Club: Remake by Ross McElwee

The Arts Club Dubai has asked me to programme a few film screenings for them in the coming months.

The conversation actually started last year, and I hosted one screening so far - How To Kill A Cloud by Tuija Halttunen, shown last November.

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.

The second screening will take place on Thursday, August 27 at 6.30pm.

I will present Remake by Ross McElwee. It premiered at the Venice Film Festival last year where I first saw it. The screening will be followed by a general discussion with the audience.

I can add a limited number names to the guest list. If you’d like to watch this film, please contact me via this form so I can add you to the guest list. Add “Remake” in the subject line. First come, first serve.

Important note: You cannot just show up, you have to register in advance. Entry is strictly for members and invited guests only.

Date: Thursday, August 27 at 6.30pm
Venue: The Arts Club, ICD Brookfield Place, DIFC, Dubai (location map)

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.