Antonello Faretta

Poetry film, 2007, 55′, colours and b/n, DVCam-Super 8

A middle aged American woman unexpectedly discovers her true origin after her parents died. Deeply moved, in the midst of an identity crisis, she decides to travel, hoping to find her birth mother whom she hads never known. She goes to a small and remote place in the South of Italy, Montedoro.

A poetry film with John Giorno directed by Antonello Faretta.

Designed for the workshop "Where are the stories?" with Abbas Kiarostami. From the story of an elderly lady a blank page of history, to escape the Nazis from Southern Italy during the Second World War.