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ANALOGICA SELECTION 14 /// PR 3
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> 15 NOV h 18.00 ZELIG
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Questa disperazione di Piero
by Mattia Biondi found footage / 2023 / Italy / 3’ 20’’ A poet intervenes in a radio program to dialogue with the singer Piero Ciampi. In the meantime, a girl contemplates a portion of the sea. |
Mattia Biondi is an italian independent filmmaker who works “at the end” of the images. His research is based on the use of minimal and essential technical instruments and it is oriented towards the development of creative processes concerning the fusion of archival material and autobiographical elements.
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A Companion for Amateur Cinematographers: Vol. I
by Federico Di Corato found footage / 2022 / Italy / 20’ Set against the backdrop of Italy in the years of the fascist dictatorship, a man of means, yet unknown to history, scrutinises the world through his small cine camera. Guiding him and teaching him is a manual; the buds of ideology are detectable beneath the seemingly impartial tone it uses to describe technique. But in his films, the ineffable signs of resistance still rise to the surface. |
Federico Di Corato was born in Andria in 1991, he lives in Milan. He graduated from NABA - Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, where he now teaches film editing. He is one of the founding partners of the Re-framing Home Movies association, which works to safeguard and promote amateur film heritage. His short films "The Shack" and "(s)words" both explore the theme of private memory, through the aesthetic of video tape devices; both were presented in competition at the Locarno Film Festival. "A Companion for Amateur Cinematographers: Vol. I" is the result of his research into Fascist-era manuals for amateur cine enthusiasts, and was made using footage from the Augusto Gandini Collection (Archivio Cinescatti - Lab 80 film); the film was developed with the support of Re-framing Home Movies and the French association, Vidéadoc.
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The Lady with Lipstick
by Francesca Coppola found footage / 2023 / Italy / 9’ Archival footage of a family turns into the poignant testimony of a woman who sees herself fifty years later. The director’s grandmother, now aged, shares her memories about life as a woman, the hopefulness of the 1960s, and the changing landscape of a town in the south of Italy troubled by a polluting steel mill. As the past is fading, remembering becomes seeing for the first time. |
Born in Milan in 1988, Francesca Coppola is a writer and director based in Rome. Her practice includes work with film, archival material and words exploring the notions of biography, ethics and memory. She holds a BFA in Film from the School of Visual Arts of New York City and an MA in Literature from La Sapienza University in Rome. She is an active member of Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective and she works as an archive producer for documentaries, collaborating with audiovisual archives all over the world.
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Muyas - Inheritance -
by Jules Leaño 16mm / 2024 / Germany / 6’53’’ As she travels to the Philippines to meet her extended family for the first time, a filmmaker sends her mother a letter attempting to explain why, in a language she doesn’t speak. Hand-processed film prints are destroyed; emulsion is lifted, recycled, and collaged into a portrait of family, diaspora, and the spaces constructed in our imagination. |
Jules Leaño is an artist based in Berlin. Her work explores the relationship between visual media, collective memory, and lived experience. Her practice engages with the materiality of analogue film and the parallel processes of destruction and preservation.
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A Visualization of a Cut
by Claudia Munksgaard-Palmqvist found footage / 2024 / Denmark / 7’ 19’’ A Visualization of a Cut is an experimental animated short film in three chapters exploring the connection between the cinematic cut and human relations extracted from home movies. The film is a meditation on life, love and loss explored through montage editing in home movies from six Scandinavian families, the materiality of paper and the thread that joins them together. The film is alternating between analysis and emotion and invites you to rethink the traditional conception of film and film narrative |
Claudia Munksgaard-Palmqvist (1992) is a Danish experimental filmmaker and animator. Through her work as a filmmaker, festival film programmer, projectionist, co-creator of a non-profit cinema and teacher she wants to make experimental film more accessible for a broader audience and start conversations about how we see experimental films.
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