I'm looking for a particular English-language documentary on Venice made in the mid-1990s that I once had a VHS recording of but have since lost and been unable to find anywhere else. I can't be completely sure, but I think I first watched this in 1996 on the Australian TV channel SBS.
It explored writers' and artists' perceptions of Venice down the ages, how these have shaped the broader perception of the city, as well as the history of the city and the actual reality of living in Venice. It features extensive quotations from famous writers who have written about Venice, such as Hemingway, Thomas Mann, Ezra Pound, Gore Vidal, Brodsky, John Ruskin, Joseph Brodsky, Ian McEwan, among others, and also interviews with a number of prominent Venetian citizens, including former mayor Massimo Cacciari and aristocrat Girolamo Marcello.
The documentary was roughly an hour long, possibly up to an hour and fifteen minutes, and the narrator was English or British.