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La camera
by Rä di Martino
Italy 2006, 10′
Original Format: film 16mm converted in digital video
Film presented at Lo schermo dell’arte 2018
Shooting: Mauramorales Bergmann
Editing: Rä di Martino
Editing: Rä di Martino
Cast: Filippo Timi, Anastasia Astolfi
Producers: Rä di Martino, Monitor Gallery, Roma
Producers: Rä di Martino, Monitor Gallery, Roma
Shot in Rome’s EUR suburb, in a set built like a room with a sort of stage in it, on which two actors, Filippo Timi and Anastasia Astolfi, perform. Through headphones, they listen to television stories and the memories of people from the artist’s generation. The actors repeat the phrases transmitted by the voices, copying accents, tones, cadences and emotions. The male actor also re-enacts a series of newsreels from the LUCE archives, at Cinecittà in Rome, from the 40s to the 60s, about the advent of the television set in Italian homes.
Rä di Martino has investigated the relationship between cinema and visual arts thanks to a production spanning from cinema, to installation and photography. Her film work, presented numerous times in previous editions of Lo schermo dell’arte, is characterized by being able to combine the genre of the documentary with fiction, exploring the possibilities of cinema as a mean to create situations full of charm and sometimes paradoxical.
She has exhibited her works in international institutions including Palazzo Grassi, GAM and Fondazione Sandretto in Turin, MACRO and MAXXI in Rome, Museion in Bolzano, Hangar Bicocca and PAC in Milan, the Tate Modern in London, the MoMA PS1 in New York, and the MCA in Chicago. Her films have been shown on numerous occasions including Art Basel, the Kassel Dokfest, the Torino Film Festival, the Venice Film Festival.
She has exhibited her works in international institutions including Palazzo Grassi, GAM and Fondazione Sandretto in Turin, MACRO and MAXXI in Rome, Museion in Bolzano, Hangar Bicocca and PAC in Milan, the Tate Modern in London, the MoMA PS1 in New York, and the MCA in Chicago. Her films have been shown on numerous occasions including Art Basel, the Kassel Dokfest, the Torino Film Festival, the Venice Film Festival.
Selected Filmography
2017 Poor Poor Jerry 2017 Controfigura 2014 The Show MAS Go On 2013 The Picture of Ourselves
2017 Poor Poor Jerry 2017 Controfigura 2014 The Show MAS Go On 2013 The Picture of Ourselves