One of the very first pieces we ran on this website was an article which marked the passing of Michaelangelo Antonioni in which Wim Wenders, in an extract from his Faber & Faber book, looked back at his memories of the great director.

"I first met Michelangelo Antonioni in 1982 in Cannes... As part of a documentary I was making on the development of film language, I had invited all the directors present at Cannes to speak to camera on the future of the cinema as they saw it. Many of them had taken up my invitation, among them Werner Herzog, Rainer Fassbinder, Steven Spielberg, Jean-Luc Godard and–Antonioni. Each director was left by himself in a room with a Nagra tape-recorder, a 16 mm camera and some brief instructions. Each was free to 'direct' his reply to the question I put to them all; they could be brief, or if they liked they could use up the whole reel of film, roughly ten minutes. The finished film was called Chambre 666, after the room in the Hotel Martinez where it had all taken place. It was the last available hotel room in the whole of Cannes.

"For me, the most impressive statement on the future of the cinema was that of Michelangelo Antonioni, which is why it went into the film completely unedited, including the moment when Michelangelo had finished speaking, and walked over to the camera to switch it off."

Now, Brazilian filmmaker Gustavo Spolidoro has returned to this discussion of the future of cinema, but this time with Wenders in front of the camera rather than behind it. The fascinating results, captured in Spolidoro's short Back to Room 666, can be seen below.

Back to Room 666 from Think Tank on Vimeo.