The Attendant

Year: 1993

Runtime: 8 mins

Language: English

Director: Isaac Julien

FantasyDrama

Memory intertwines with desire as a museum attendant becomes absorbed in sado‑masochistic fantasies provoked by a 19th‑century painting titled Scene on the Coast of Africa, which depicts enslaved figures in chains. He recollects his former life as a singer, ultimately performing Purcell’s haunting Dido’s Lament.

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