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’ve 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 Arts Club Dubai was launched in 2020 and hosts cultural programmes that are exclusive for members and their guests. The film screenings I’m programming will be introduced by me, followed by a discussion with audience and/or an invited guest speaker.
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.
The events at The Arts Club are normally for members only, but for this screening, they said I can ask people I know and share with my readers and followers on social media and ask if you’d like to attend.
I can add a limited number names to the guest list. Free to attend.
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.
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)
For forty years, Ross McElwee has made documentaries which blend autobiography and cultural observation. When his son Adrian died suddenly, the footage he had filmed of his son became something else entirely: a reckoning with what the camera captured, and what it could not. REMAKE traces the fragile bond the camera created between a father and son, and what remains of it now.
Ross McElwee has made closely observed and profoundly subjective documentaries about how his personal life intersects with the world at large. But the death of his son suddenly causes him to reassess his approach to filmmaking and to his own life’s work.