Marlene Dumas goes to the Movies: Hiroshima mon amour

Marlene Dumas invites you to join her and watch the films that influenced her life and work. The two previous evenings in September and October had the themes 'close-up' and 'collage' respectively. For this final evening, Dumas has selected the theme “couples” a motif that often crops up in her work and is expressed in many forms (male-female/child-mother/brother-sister/black-white, relationships, etc.).

As the evening's feature film, the artist picked Hiroshima mon amour by Alain Resnais in which French actress (Emmanuelle Riva) falls in love with Japanese architect (Eiji Okada) in Hiroshima. The two both have traumas. During the war the woman had an affair with a German soldier and was arrested as a traitor and the young architect witnessed the horror of the atom bomb first hand.

Upon its release, Resnais” feature film debut was lauded for its unconventional form; the director decided against the use of flashbacks and allowed the past (the war) and the present to seamlessly merge. EYE will be screening the recent digital restoration of this post-war classic which Marguerite Duras wrote the scenario for.

Please note: double bill with Marlene Dumas goes to the Movies: Couples. Price (discounted): € 16. Double-bill tickets only available from the box office. The screenings can also be attended separately, admission then amounts to € 10.

Marlene Dumas: The Image as Burden, 6 September 2014 - 4 January 2015, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. This retrospective is Dumas' first, major solo exhibition in 20 years and brings together over 100 of her most important works from the late 1970s to the present day.