Directing
This short film was made from strolls and spinning filmed in Super 8 as well as sound walks recorded in the city of Rome in 2010, 2011 and 2012. Crossing Rome, walking, filming, was looking for the a necessity which links geography to the intervals of the city, the movement of walking and the movement of images. A work literally in progress focused on the exercise of walking and the accumulation of video, sound and cinematographic traces: for Rome to emerge, perhaps...
Monica Maurer and Cahide Ozel are bound together by images. Those of the Kurdish struggle that Cahide lacks, and those that Monica restores and preserves for the Palestinian people. Cinema as resistance to disappearance; a film as a safe place for fragile memory.
I went to Tunisia and Algeria to collect songs and popular stories of the Revolution of Independence, on the trail of a family memory and the vinyl record of the Italian anarchist group Cantacronache “Canti della Rivoluzione algerina”. (Aude Fourel)
