SILK ROAD
(SILKEVEJEN)
dir. Jytte Rex, 2004
75 min. Denmark.
In Danish with English subtitles.

One of Rex’s most celebrated and enigmatic 21st century films, SILK ROAD is preoccupied with the threshold between life and death. Christine, a renaissance-era painting restorer with a deep connection to the work of Sofonisba Anguissola, is seriously ill. Lying in a sterile hospital bed, drifting in and out of consciousness, a lifetime of memories jolts Christine through afterlife-adjacent visions, and confronts her with spectres of her past. In dialogue with her dead husband, and under the watchful eye of her father, Rex’s heroine flows through the in-between, and among images of biblical proportions.

screening with

SEARCH-LIMBO
dir. Jytte Rex, 2022
8 min. Denmark.
No dialogue.