29° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
ITALIANA.CORTI
SUR LES TRACES DE LYGIA CLARK, SOUVENIRS ET ÉVOCATIONS DES SES ANNÉES PARISIENNES
by Paola Anziché e Irene Dionisio
Country: Italy
Year: 2011
Duration: 26'
Between 1970 and 1975, Lygia Clark, a Brazilian painter and sculptress who was one of the founders of the Grupo Frente – the collective which revolutionized the world of the plastic arts in the mid-1950s – was asked to hold a series of lessons about sign language, entitled The Gesture and Communication, at the Sorbonne in Paris. Using material from the time, colleagues, artists, photographers and gallery owners reconstruct that experience and their relationship with the work and the person. “This film is based on the initial idea of sharing, from a circumscribed and microcosmic point of view, our embryonic reflections on the dimension of the ephemeral and of memory, and their overlapping in art. We wanted to freely re-interpret the few images that are still available of Lygia Clark’s lessons and the suggestions they spark, using a filmic language that brings together the different dimensions and planes of reality, the imaginary and the re-imagined.”
Biography
film director
Irene Dionisio
Irene Dionisio (Turin, Italy, 1986), after graduating in philosophy, received a master’s degree in film and philosophy from the University of Amiens. In 2010, she followed the master’s degree in documentary cinema held by Daniele Segre and Marco Bellocchio. She has made the short Haiku della fine, as well as documentaries such as Fières d’être putes and La fabbrica è piena - Tragicommedia in otto atti.
FILMOGRAFIA
Irene Dionisio:
Haiku della fine (cm, 2009), Fières d’être putes (mm, doc., 2010), La fabbrica è piena - Tragicommedia in otto atti (doc., 2011).
Irene Dionisio, Paola Anziché:
Sur le traces de Lygia Clark. Souvenirs et évocations des ses années parisiennes (cm, 2011).
Paola Anzichè
Paola Anziché (Milan, Italy, 1975), since 2000, she has worked as a visual artist and has participated at important international artistic residences, such as the Resò International Network in Capacete and the Centre international d’accueil et d’échanges des Récollets in Paris. Between 2009 and 2010, she held two personal exhibits: Greater Torino, at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin, and Tapis-à-porter, at Careof in Milan.
FILMOGRAFIA
Irene Dionisio, Paola Anziché:
Sur le traces de Lygia Clark. Souvenirs et évocations des ses années parisiennes (cm, 2011).
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura, montaggio, produttori/directors, screenplay, film editing, producers
Paola Anziché, Irene Dionisio
fotografia/cinematography
Irene Dionisio, Davide Luciani
suono/sound
Davide Luciani
interpreti/cast
Gaëlle Bosser, Michel Durand-Dessert, Annette Malochet, Philippe Oudard, Denise Renè, Natalie Seroussi, Teresa Aleman, Paola Anziché, Veronica Cantono, Irene Dionisio, Sara Dellabella, Chiara Fraticelli, Giulia Gallo, Erika La Ragione, Alice Lospinoso, Matteo Marini, Valentina Pagnalonga, Yael Plat, Paolo Peroni
