40° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
ITALIAN SHORT FILMS COMPETITION
PERPENDICOLARE IN AVANTI
by Federica Foglia
Country: Canada, Italy
Year: 2021
Duration: 15'
A handmade 16mm collage film based on the artist's autobiographical experience as an immigrant. The film explores the idea of inhabiting the liminal space of multiple places and multiple times, through visual and sound abstraction. It intertwines pre-existing materials and fragments of found footage. Through these so-called “scraps”, it is a recycling film, hand-treated through the use of the technique of Emulsion Lifting.
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).
Declaration
film director
“Finding the materials for my films starts with the accessibility issue; where can I go to get my hands (literally) on some celluloid? Going through official archives is out of the question; their mission of preservation would collide with my mission of dismembering the celluloid films. And aside from that, there is always an aura of bureaucracy and inaccessibility linked to Archives - this doesn’t happen on the internet! The internet has led me to several treasures from private estates. I collect these orphans from online auctions, private sellers who want to get rid of materials they find in estates and make some money out of it - most of the time, what they write in their listing is something along these lines: ‘Lot of 10 home movies, not inspected, buy as is.’”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR: Federica Foglia.
CONTACT:
Federica Foglia - euriluna@hotmail.it
