Federica Foglia
2021Exit/Entrance or Trasumanar
Federica Foglia
Exit / Entrance is a visual and poetic essay on what it is like to be displaced as a person. The protagonist is a painter who wanders the town in which he lives to sketch and paint oscillating between nostalgia and desire to belong.
Exit/Entrance or Trasumanar
Fantassút / Rain on the Borders
Federica Foglia
11,000 refugees have been stranded for months in the Idomeni refugee camp on the Greek/Macedonian border. This short documentary is a glimpse of their lives in a forgotten twilight zone, as they wait for the European borders to open.
Fantassút / Rain on the Borders
L'Arrière-Pays
Federica Foglia
This short piece is an autobiographical fable at the cross-section between SCI-FI and memory film. It explores the journey of two dreamers trapped between past and present, between dream and reality. It combines excerpts from an immigration journal, found text and images suspended in a dystopian dark space.
The Backcountry
L'Arrière-Pays
Federica Foglia
An autobiographical fable at the cross-section between SCI-FI and Memory Film. The film explores the journey of two dreamers trapped between Past and Present, between Dream and Reality. It combines excerpts from an immigration journal, found text and images suspended in a dystopian dark space.
L'Arrière-Pays
Green and Red, but Terracotta Red
Federica Foglia
We are looking through the mirror of time, into distorted memories, warped faces, collapsed homes. While several narrators tell us about the most vivid colors in their dreams. The film consists of a collage of 16mm found footage I further processed and decayed using a gentle combination of bleaching techniques. This process allowed me to partially lift the emulsion from the film base and re-shift it and re-position it by hand. The narration is from the anthology Dreams by Delia Derbyshire. -- F.F.
Green and Red, but Terracotta Red
Toad, Leaf, Grass, Rock
Federica Foglia
A 16mm hybrid visual poem, at the crossroad between intertextuality and documentary. This film "plays" with images in a mysterious way. In the words of Eugenio Montale, weaving a disappearing and deserted suburban landscape into the fabric of images, sounds, and textures of two far-away lovers yearning for each other.
Toad, Leaf, Grass, Rock
Originate and Recompile
Federica Foglia
In 1962 Ernesto De Martino travelled to the South of Italy for his ethnographic research and shot "La Taranta". A study around women who were poisoned by a Trantula bite while harvesting in the fields. The remedy against the deadly poison was a folk dance called Taranta. The women danced the poison out of their bodies with the help of local musicians and priests. Studies around this phenomenon have highlighted that, in the majority of cases, these women were suffering severe mental illness and hysteria due to sexual abuse and poverty. In present-day Italy a similar dynamic has resurfaced, uncovering the stories of groups of immigrant women (mostly from Romania) who were victims of agricultural and sexual exploitation in Ragusa, Sicly. I reapprorpiated the 1962 archival footage to propose a different angle of the story surrounding these women. Not from the point of view of a man who has undertaken to observe them, but from the point of view of a woman from the South of Italy. (FF)
Originate and Recompile
Colonna Continua
Federica Foglia
Colonna Continua (Continuos Column) is an endless 16mm loop composed of layers of 16mm found footage, 8mm home movies and 35mm collage slides - subsequently scanned on an Optical Printer. The Loop and Slides were first created for a live performance at Pix Film Gallery in Toronto. The film loop is accompanied by slides of colours, fragments of images, words that act as inter-titles, creating echoes between the film's continuous vertical movement and the stillness of the fixed slide. The found sound is a poem written by Italian beat poet Massimo Mori in 1980, from a collection of poetry created between Italy and Quebec, Canada.
Colonna Continua
