by Rosa Barba, 2014, 40''
Presented at the 15th edition of Lo schermo dell'arte, 2021 The film alternates aerial shots of river or coastal landscapes and industrial sites with images of some military outposts on the water built during the Second World War, connected with the interiors of the abandoned Albert Hall in Manchester, activated by the artist through performance. The work, like a state between sleep and wakefulness, creates new non-rational associations between spaces in different geographical areas.
Rosa Barba
(Agrigento 1972, lives and works in Berlin) creates site-specific installations and interventions to analyze the ways in which cinema articulates space, placing the work and the viewer in a new relationship. Her cinematographic works are placed between the experimental documentary and the fictional narrative, introducing performative elements. They often focus on natural landscapes and human interventions on the environment and explore the relationship between historical documents, personal anecdotes and cinematographic representation, creating spaces of memory and uncertainty.
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