Screening times:
Friday, July 14, 7:00 PM - SOLD OUT
Friday, July 14, 9:00 PM - Half-capacity screening
Saturday, July 15, 7:00 PM - Half-capacity screening
Saturday, July 15, 9:00 PM - Half-capacity screening
Davide Ferrario | Documentary | Italy | 2022 | 80m | Italian with English subtitles
Umberto Eco’s private library was a world apart: more than 30,000 contemporary books and 1,500 ancient and rare books. After his death, the family granted access to the library to director Davide Ferrario, who had worked with Eco in 2015, one year before the writer’s death, for a video-installation at the Art Biennale of Venice. Slowly, from the very simple idea of filming the library before it was given to the Italian State and therefore moved from its original place, a project was born to make a feature documentary: not only to describe an extraordinary location, but also to explain Eco’s idea and feeling of the library as “memory of the world”.
A documentary immersion into all things Eco, Davide Ferrario’s film takes us on a tour of Umberto Eco’s private library, guided by the author himself.
"Exploring fictional worlds with Eco for a guide remains a diverting and often enlightening pursuit." -Nicolas Rapold, New York Times
"The film becomes a timely epistemological rumination on the difference between knowledge and information, the relationship between memory and technology." -William Repass, Slant Magazine
"If you are an Eco fan, you will find this film a pleasure from start to finish, and be disappointed only in its brevity." -Jennie Kermode, Eye For Film
Tickets $8.75 ($8 cash at the door if available).
Half capacity
SOLD OUT
Half capacity
Half capacity
