CineClub: Bartleby
Austrian Cultural Forum London28 Rutland Gate, London
Tue 6 Oct · 19:00
About this event
We are delighted to present a short programme of films originally shot on 16mm. While we don't have the capacity to screen the original analogue films we are keen to support a medium that is increasingly under threat by the advances in digital and AI filmmaking. Continuing on from our first screening we go back several decades for a very special double bill. Bartleby transports you to 1970s London. Directed by Anthony Friedman and starring Paul Scofield, John McEnery and Thorley Walters. The film was adapted from the 1857 short story "Bartleby, the Scrivener; A Story of Wall-street" by Herman Melville. The film relocates the narrative from New York in the 1850s to London in the 1970s. Bartleby, a young audit clerk, is defeated by the pressures of modern life; he gradually opts out of all forms of social engagement and withdraws into his own world. We will follow this screening with a contemporary re-interpretation of Melville's story entitled B for Bartleby . We encourage viewers to join us for both screenings to have the most from this unique cinematic juxtoposition. UK, 1970, 78min, English, directed by Anthony Friedman
