40° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
ITALIAN SHORT FILMS COMPETITION
AUTORITRATTO ALL´INFERNO
by Federica Foglia
Country: Canada, Italy
Year: 2021
Duration: 3'
Various layers of 8mm film and diverse fragments come together to create a self-portrait of the director. The first layer is an 8mm “orphan film” (found footage) from the 1970s, entitled Woman Dancing with a Dog and found by chance at an antiques auction. The second layer is an 8mm film that was buried underground for a few months and allowed to undergo a process of natural decomposition. The third layer is an 8mm home movie that was first decomposed and later hand painted using ink for film.
Biography
film director
Federica Foglia
(Naples, Italy) is a visual artist who is presently a PhD student in Cinema & Media Studies at York University in Toronto. She is interested in immigration, identity, women of the diaspora, and migrations, and tries to find an appropriate visual language for each topic. Her activities revolve around tactile cinema, recycled cinema, amateur films, and counter-archives. At the moment, she is working on a project involving the development of eco-sustainable Emulsion Lifting techniques using 16mm films from private collections and family archives.
FILMOGRAFIA
Exit/Entrance or Trasumanar (cm, 2015), Fantassút/Rain on the Borders (cm, 2015), Mix/Wildflower Seeds (2018), L’Arrière-Pays (cm, 2019), Toad, Leaf, Grass, Rock, experimental (cm, 2020), Something Red, Something Blue (cm, 2020), Originate and Recompile (cm, 2020), Autoritratto (cm, 2020), CURRENTS (cm, 2021-22), Autoritratto all’inferno (cm, 2022), Skyscraper Film (cm, 2022).
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR: Federica Foglia.
CONTACT:
CONTACT:
Federica Foglia - euriluna@hotmail.it
