, '' commissioned by the Pinault Foundation for its new home in the Palazzo Grassi in Venice , he borrows the format of a VH-1 television show to portray himself in a tortured relationship with Marlene Dietrich -- that is , the Dietrich of Maximilian Schell 's 1984 film , '' Marlene , '' about the star , which involves her friendship with the Bauhaus textile artist Anni Albers .