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Image of movie Gli appunti di Anna Azzori / Uno specchio che viaggia nel tempo
Image of movie Gli appunti di Anna Azzori / Uno specchio che viaggia nel tempo
Cinematography: DIAGONALE ’20 COLLECTION – THE UNFINISHED

Gli appunti di Anna Azzori / Uno specchio che viaggia nel tempo

The Notes of Anna Azzori / A Mirror that Travels through Time
Constanze Ruhm
Austria, Germany, France 2020
72 min
V'20

When ANNA (1972–1975), Alberto Grifi’s and Massimo Sarchielli’s cinéma-vérité portrait of a stranded pregnant woman on Rome’s Piazza Navona, returned to screens eight years ago, the early, greasy video aesthetic amplified its sense of mystery: a work of art has become the only proof that this protagonist and real-life human being, who later disappeared, even existed. GLI APPUNTI DI ANNA AZZORI/UNO SPECCHIO CHE VIAGGIA NEL TEMPO, Constanze Ruhm’s re-reading and extension of this 1970s collaborative work of the 1970s, is carried by a related unease, which is given a strong feminist turn: Anna is no longer the limited subject of a sociopolitical exploration, but rather actively steps out of the frame and invents her own agenda. Ruhm’s film interweaves diferent approaches, one of which is called a “frequency change”: a casting process in several parts that provides Anna with a bunch of colorful contemporary alter egos and therefore turns her into a member of an utopian feminist collective. Another is directed against the persistence of Grifi’s and Sarchielli’s work itself, whereby Anna is given the opportunity to rewrite her story via small interventions, also understanding her decisions as a political stance against patriarchy. (Dominik Kamalzadeh)

In the presence of Constanze Ruhm.

Constanze Ruhm: TRAVELLING/PLAN 234/ EXTÉRIEUR NUIT (1999/2005), APARTMENT (1999), EVIDENCE (1999), A MEMORY OF THE PLAYERS IN A MIRROR AT MIDNIGHT (2001), X CHARACTERS / RE(HERS)AL (2003/04), X NANA / SUBROUTINE (2004), X LOVE SCENES / PEARLS WITHOUT A STRING (2007), CRASH SITE / MY_NEVER_ENDING_BURIAL_ PLOT (2009), KALTE PROBE (2013, Ko- Regie), PANORAMIS PARAMOUNT PARANORMAL. THREE TIMES A FILM (2017)

Credits
  • Gemma Vannuzzi
  • Mona Abdel Baky
  • Kheda Durtaeva
  • Ljubica Jaksic
  • Hannah Morscher
  • Cordula Rieger
  • Sidi Robol
  • Kadisa Seitinger
  • Alex Smith
  • Stefano Mancini
  • Elisabeth Hrusa
  • Alisha Svestka
  • Livia Szankowsky
  • Law Wallner
  • Lia Wilfing
  • Judith van der Werff
  • Constanze Ruhm
  • Hannes Böck
  • Hannes Böck
  • Sebastian Meyer
  • Theda Schifferdecker
  • Anna Spanlang
  • Constanze Ruhm
  • Hannes Böck
  • Gaël Ségalen
  • Jessyca R. Hauser
Constanze Ruhm

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