Скачать или смотреть You Burn Me - Official Trailer

Opens March 7 at Anthology Film Archives & March 14 at American Cinematheque

An adaptation of a chapter in Cesare Pavese's Dialogues with Leucò, Matías Piñeiro's latest is an intimate and expansive meditation on death and desire and a thrilling exploration of the possibilities of adapting text to film. In "Sea Foam," Pavese imagines a dialogue between the ancient Greek poet Sappho and the nymph Britomartis, portrayed here by frequent Piñeiro collaborators Gabi Saidón and María Villar. Constantly shapeshifting in form, the film splinters out from Pavese's text to a myriad of footnotes, histories, and lively digressions, from the fragmentary poetry of Sappho, to the circumstances of Pavese’s death in a Turin hotel room, to the science of sea foam with its connections to disease and fertility. In this ebb and flow of death and desire, You Burn Me introduces “mnemotechnic games” that invite the audience, through a repetition of words and images, to memorize Sappho's lyrics, a game intrinsic to the moving image that may just save Sappho, Pavese, Piñeiro, and the audience from oblivion.