alr

Story of My Death
(Història de la meva mort)

Director in Person
$15 Special Event Tickets
New 35mm print
Directed by Albert Serra.
With Vicenç Altaió, Lluís Serrat, Eliseu Huertas.
Spain/France/Romania, 2013, 35mm, color, 148 min.
Catalan with English subtitles.
Print source: HFA

The spirit of Warhol’s stylized genre-bending collaborations with the late Paul Morrissey infuses Serra’s lush and mournful imagination of an encounter between Giacomo Casanova and Count Dracula. Starring poet and Catalan art critic Vicenç Altaió as a voluble Casanova, Story of My Death stages the meeting of the mythical figures as embodiments of distinct ideas of human desire and, perhaps, a charged metaphor for the passage from the Enlightenment to Romanticism.

Story of My Death introduction and post-screening discussion with Albert Serra and HFA Director Haden Guest.

Part of film series

Read more

Albert Serra, or Cinematic Time Regained

Current and upcoming film series

Read more

From the Collection: Antonioni / Bertolucci / Olmi

Read more

Steve McQueen’s Occupied City

Read more

The Complete Stanley Kubrick

Read more

Alain Kassanda,
2026 McMillan-Stewart Fellow