Insignificance

“Have you even noticed ‘What the hell’ is always the right decision to make?” – The Actress in INSIGNIFICANCE

As a bonus, we screen Nicolas Roeg’s INSIGNIFICANCE, based on a play by Terry Johnson. The movie narrates an alternative history, in which four icons meet each other in a New York hotel room in 1954. The Actress (played by Theresa Russell and modelled after Marilyn Monroe), The Ballplayer (played by Gary Busey and based on Joe DiMaggio), The Professor (played by Michael Emil and inspired by Albert Einstein) and The Senator (played by Tony Curtis and based on Joseph McCarthy) cross paths and their meeting comments on the zeitgeist of the fifties and the concept of fame versus reality.

INSIGNIFICANCE takes what we think we know about a couple of legendary figures as premise for a story that emphasizes that we never really know what happens behinds closed doors. The catalyst for this movie therefore was an epiphany Roeg had: “Nobody knows a damn thing about anyone.”

And the same is true for Marilyn Monroe. The myth, the icon, immortalised on the screen, but eternally a mystery.

This screening is part of MARILYN 100, an ode to the iconic Marilyn Monroe in what would’ve been her 100th year of life.