Country: France
Year: 2012
Duration: 48'
Roubaix, a city with an industrial past, is today one of France’s most destitute areas. During six months of shooting in public places, the director asked the townspeople to think of one or more things they had been told in the past and that had somehow changed them. Using thirteen sequence shots, she then constructed a map of the city’s transformations, creating a study of the dynamism of individuals, a relational project in an urban community, and an example of film in the sense of a public space.
Biography
film director
Anna Marziano
(Padua, Italy, 1982) studied film at the Centro Sperimentale in Rome and directing at the Ateliers Varan in Paris. In 2009, she directed Mainstream - An Evening with Dan Perjovschi, a documentary starring the Romanian artist Dan Perjovschi, presented at the Galerie Michel Rein in Paris and at the London International Documentary Festival. She has participated at several editions of the Torino Film Festival: with the short La veglia (2010), at the Italian Short Films competition, and De la mutabilité de toute chose et de la possibilité d’en changer certaines (2011), Variations ordinaires (2012) and Au-delà de l'un (2017) in the Italian documentaries competition.
FILMOGRAFIA
Mainstream - An Evening with Dan Perjovschi (doc, cm, 2009), La veglia (cm, 2010), De la mutabilité de toute chose et de la possibilité d’en changer certaines (doc, cm, 2011), Variations ordinaires (doc, mm, 2012), Orizzonti orizzonti! (cm, 2014), Al di là dell’uno (Au-delà de l’un, doc, mm, 2017), Al largo (doc., 2020).
Declaration
film director
“How are we transformed every day by the words of theothers? And how our own words act on them? Words become a trace of these mutual changes and thelistening turns into the central experience of this film, both in its making and in its vision. The listeningsupports the sight, and the sight supports the listening: in between the extraneousness of thelandscapes and the intimate closeness of the voices, the ambiguous space of the singular/pluralidentity is offered to the experience of the public.”
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura, montaggio, produttore/director, screenplay, film editing, producer
Anna Marziano
suono/sound Simon Apostolou
produzione/production Le Fresnoy-Studio national des arts contemporains
distribuzione/distribution Boudu
suono/sound Simon Apostolou
produzione/production Le Fresnoy-Studio national des arts contemporains
distribuzione/distribution Boudu
