Anna Marziano
Directing
Biography
Anna Marziano is a filmmaker whose films question the ongoing transformations of subjects and communities. Anna has a background in political sciences (University of Padua), philosophy (University of Verona) and cinema (Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Rome). In 2009, thanks to a fellowship provided by Fondo Audiovisivo Friuli Venezia Giulia, Anna moved to France where she studied Direction at Ateliers Varan (Paris) and took part in Le Fresnoy – Studio National (Tourcoing); since then, she has been producing a consistent body of filmworks, experimenting with the documentary form and with collaborative practices. Her works are screened in festivals and art-spaces throughout the world: Toronto International Film Festival - Wavelenghts, Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, IFFR Rotterdam, FIC Valdivia, Cinéma du Réel, documenta 15 Kassel | lumbung, FIPA Biarritz, Les écrans documentaires, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Documenta Madrid, Media City Film Festival, Punto de Vista, L’alternativa, Fracto Film Festival, LABoral Centro de Arte Gijon, Palais de Tokyo, National Gallery of Art Washington DC, Wexner Center for the Arts, Museum of the Moving Image NYC, MAXXI Rome, Ji.hlava Film Festival, Kerala International Film Festival among others... In 2018, BEYOND THE ONE received the A. Mekas Award at Experimenta Film Festival, as well as the Special Mention at Cinéma du Réel. In 2020, AL LARGO received the Special Jury Award at Torino Film Festival. Her films are preserved by the archives Cineteca di Bologna and Bibliothèque nationale de France, in Paris. They are also visible through Collectif Jeune Cinéma (Paris), MUBI, DAfilms, Tënk. Retrospectives of her works were guested at Mostra del Cinema di Pesaro, Volksbühne Berlin, Wolf Kino Berlin... Anna’s films have been funded by Goethe-Institut, CNC Aide à l’Innovation Audiovisuelle Paris, Berliner Senat, DRAC Dunkerque. Her films have been co-produced by joonfilm (Ann Carolin Renninger, Germany), Bibliothèque nationale de France, Spectre Productions. She was jury member for Torino Film Festival (Italiana.doc) in 2018. As invited artist, she run courses at Srishti School of Art Bangalore and University of Göttingen. She was invited to the artistic residencies bangaloREsidency Max-Mueller / Bhavan, CLEA Artist in mission - Dunkerque, Utopiana (Génève) and Bibliothèque national de France - Villa Medici – Fondation Cino Del Duca. Since 2013, Anna Marziano lives in Padua and in Berlin.
Known For
A reflection on the concept of pain through an immersive flow of images and words.
Al largo
Set to a breath-like rhythm, Anna Marziano’s Beyond the One is an essayistic exploration of love’s various guises, considering different attempts at courtship, living together, and sustaining connections with people once they have died.
Beyond the One
Which artistic practices are possibile in a society that revolves on artificial needs? An open consideration through the work of the artist Dan Perjovschi. An invitation for a walk along the imaginary axis of the sight.
Mainstream
The Mutability of All Things and the Possibility of Changing Some explores our human adaptability in light of catastrophe by way of seminal literature passages implying a transitory social body.
The Mutability of All Things and the Possibility of Changing Some
Inspired by the last essay Charles Darwin wrote on the action of worms, Anna Marziano crafted a film where the cultural and political action is placed in continuity with the work of earthworms, digesting and feeding the soil microscopically day after day. The film intertwines direct observation, video projections and the decay of some film negatives buried in the ground in the attempt to keep visual traces of the life of micro-organisms.
Tutto qui
“Marie-Claude Treilhou (Ateliers Varan) proposed that we make a collective film composed of various shorts that all deal with rage. Even though the project hasn’t yet been completed, right from the start I felt very close to this subject. I’m not talking about the emotional aspect of rage, nor its interpretation in a revolutionary key. Instead, I’m referring to a silent and constitutive rage. Los justos by Jorge Luis Borges was a poem which guided me as I wrote the short, like a serene expression of a radical state of rebellion, composed of the renunciation of power and violence.”
La veglia
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 filmmaker asked the townspeople to think of one or more things they had been told in the past and that had somehow changed them. Through thirteen sequence shots and microscopic images, she then constructed a sort of cartography of micro-transformations of human trajectories, a poetical study of the dynamism of individuals. In between the extraneousness of the images and the intimate closeness of the voices, the ambiguous space of the singular/plural identity is offered to the experience of the public.
Variations ordinaires
This film is composed of 5 horizons, each one offered by the filmmaker to the voices of some passers by met in Apulia, in June 2013: their words draw closed and open spaces, paths of illnesses and healing.
Orizzonti orizzonti!
“Farsi seme is silent. Silent like the plants that surround us. Silent like the seeds that I began to collect in places where I would go for a walk. Collecting blood, collecting seeds. The power of seeds represented the intersection of solidarity and singularity: it wasn’t only a no-longer-being-a-flower. There was a multiplicity of forms, a lushness, the intricate delicacy of their forms… I thought of translating venous and menstrual bloods into two different natural pigments, hematite and rubia tinctorum”. (Anna Marziano)