Country: Italy
Year: 2022
Duration: 21'
When Viola and her father try to restore a clay child, a gift from Pasolini, they end up repairing an old wound. A small crack breaks the silence, resuming a suspended dialogue.
Biography
film director
Federica Quaini
(Lodi, Italy, 1986) has a degree in Literature and Film Studies and, after three-years training as an actress, in 2014 she graduated in Film direction at the Tracce di Cinema school in Rome. During her studies she created two short films: La sposa del mare and Giochi Galanti, both in 2013. In 2016, she wrote and directed the short film Gli occhi tuoi belli brillano), presented in many international festivals and awarded with the Best Short Feature Award at Cinealfama Lisbon International Film Festival, the Best Film Noir Award at Los Angeles Film Awards, the Best Female Director Award at London Independent Film Festival and the Best Narrative Short Award at Frostbite International Film Festival. She later realized various experimental projects, participating, among others, in the workshops L’uomo e la Bestia promoted by marechiarofilm, Extended Cine Campus Terre di Cinema and Scuola Nazionale di Video Partecipativo e Cinema Documentario by Zalab. Her last short documentary Il piccolo golem is one of the winning projects of the Premio Cesare Zavattini 2021/2022.
FILMOGRAFIA
La sposa del mare (cm, 2013), Giochi galanti (cm, 2013), Gli occhi tuoi belli brillano (cm, 2016), Il piccolo golem (cm, doc., 2021)
Declaration
film director
“I have known Viola for quite some time and I have always found her family narrative fascinating. The theme of the film is extremely complex and delicate, I was attracted by the possibility of telling this story through such a profoundly symbolic object: a clay sculpture, a small unknown work, made many years ago as a symbol of friendship and hope. Pasolini and Zigaina shaped it thinking about the child that Viola's grandmother would soon give birth to: her father. And it is precisely with this child that Viola tries to dialogue in order to know her own story. On the one hand, I tried to tell this story through the possibility that doubles can offer: allowing us to do things we would otherwise be unable to accomplish, leading us to explore our gray areas in order to overcome the traumas we carry with us. On the other hand, to express this sentimental research, this emotional journey between the cracks of memory, I decided to use archival materials, plundering collective memory. Pieces of life that belonged to others to bring back a woman, a memory, a relationship. Over time, the little golem has become a symbol of the love between a parent and a child. Generations pass, but emotional bonds remain. It is all we have”.
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR: Federica Quaini. SCREENPLAY: Federica Quaini, Viola Giulia Milocco. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Hugo Massa. FILM EDITING: Chiara De Cunto. MUSIC: Dario Miranda. SOUND: Massimiliano Borghesi. PRODUCTION: Archivio audiovisivo del movimento operaio e democratico.
CONTACT:
Federica Quaini - federicaquaini@gmail.com
