The Berlin-based artist traces a via dolorosa through the modern world in a timely new video based on Heiner Müller’s excoriating 1984 adaptation of Titus Andronicus, Shakespeare’s blood-soaked revenge drama. Presented as a triptych that is as lyrical as it is terrifying, Mayer’s piece extends Müller’s parable to a global narrative of contemporary empire in which footage shot on locations across Africa and Asia is contrasted against highly stylized in-studio passages featuring cinema icon Jeanne Moreau (appearing as Goth queen Tamora). Müller, the most provocative playwright of the erstwhile East Germany, used his commentary to address imperial violence and the fateful cycle of brutality it begets; Mayer’s Anatomie Titus reminds us that those concerns remain just as relevant today, 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The screening is followed by a discussion with the artist, renowned director Peter Sellars and noted director and theorist John Rouse.