FLAUBERT DREAMS OF TRAVEL BUT THE ILLNESS OF HIS MOTHER PREVENTS IT
With: Ron Vawter, Kate Valk, Peyton Smith, Nancy Reilly, Anna Köhler, Willem Dafoe, Jeff Webster, Irma St. Paule
Director: Elizabeth LeCompte
Director of Photography, Editor: Ken Kobland
Produced by The Wooster Group
Production History
“Flaubert Dreams of Travel but the Illness of His Mother Prevents It,” a collaboration with Ken Kobland, was filmed in November and December of 1985 while in residence at The Kennedy Center in Washngton, D.C. The video was later incorporated into FRANK DELL’S THE TEMPTATION OF SAINT ANTONY.
Screenings as a standalone piece:
2025 February 11 & 23: Screening as part of the film series “Wild at Heart: Willem Dafoe” at Anthology Film Archives, New York City
2023 April 23: Screening at Festival Neue Dramatik, Schaubühne, Berlin, Germany
2020 April 27 - May 3: Free online streaming on The Wooster Group’s website.
2016 November 4: Screening at the Underground Film Series at Indiana University Cinema, Bloomington, Indiana
2014 October 3: Screening, followed by a conversation between filmmakers Ken Kobland and Leslie Thornton, at Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
