Commissioned for "Catalonia in Venice" at last year’s Venice Biennale by curator Chus Martínez, Albert Serra’s monumental five-screen film installation sensually explores, in no narrative order, the stirrings of a society based on labour and sexual exploitation that is forced to develop new forms of technology in order to subsist.

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Wavelengths

Singularity

Commissioned for "Catalonia in Venice" at last year's Venice Biennale by curator Chus Martínez, Albert Serra's monumental five-screen film project, Singularity is a major work by one of today's most visionary artist-filmmakers. In a series of interlocking episodes, Serra's baroque, sensual epic weaves an era-spanning narrative that recounts the strange presence of a group of people in proximity to a businessman and a mine. But the work's true subject is the solipsism and complacency of a society founded on exploitation — a society forced to constantly develop new forms of technology in order to subsist, and one where individual desires, everyday habits and general corruption work against the very idea of a "renaissance." Both a moodily unfurling 12-hour film and a jagged topography of febrile fragmentation, Singularity is an exciting reconsideration of cinema's possibilities for self-realization, and a confirmation of the importance of intellect, feelings, and sentience in our computer age.

ANDRÉA PICARD

Presented at 99 Sudbury, September 9–17. OPENING: September 9, 8pm–10pm.

Albert Serra’s new feature La Mort de Louis XIV also screens at the Festival as part of Wavelengths.

Image and artwork: courtesy of the artist and ANDERGRAUN FILMS

Screenings

Fri Sep 09

99 Sudbury Street

Regular
12:00pm
Sat Sep 10

99 Sudbury Street

Regular
12:00pm
Sun Sep 11

99 Sudbury Street

Regular
12:00pm
Mon Sep 12

99 Sudbury Street

Regular
12:00pm
Tue Sep 13

99 Sudbury Street

Regular
12:00pm
Wed Sep 14

99 Sudbury Street

Regular
12:00pm
Thu Sep 15

99 Sudbury Street

Regular
12:00pm
Fri Sep 16

99 Sudbury Street

Regular
12:00pm
Sat Sep 17

99 Sudbury Street

Regular
12:00pm