La Mariée / The Bride / La Sposa
Synopsis
Les deux artistes Pippa Bacca et Silvia Moro quittent Milan en robe de mariée. Avec une seule préoccupation: l’ouverture aux autres. Au cours de ce voyage-performance en autostop, les deux femmes décident de se séparer et Pippa trouve la mort en Turquie. Le film part à la recherche de son souvenir.
Dressed in a wedding gown, the Milanese artist Pippa Bacca leaves her native city in direction of Jerusalem. Accompanied by fellow artist Silvia Moro, both women hitchhike their way across the Balkans with a clear aspiration: opening themselves towards ‘the Other’. As their travel-performance unfolds, the artists decide to take two different paths and Pippa is later found dead in Turkey. The film embarked on a journey in quest of her memories.
Festivals
IDFA, International Documentary Festival Amsterdam 2012 – NLRencontres Henri Langlois, Festival International des écoles de cinéma 2012 – Poitiers, FRFIFA, International Festival of Films on Art 2013 – Montréal, CAAljazeera International Documentary Film Festival 2013 – Doha, QTDocumentarist, Istanbul Documentary Days 2013 – Istanbul, TKLo Schermo dell’arte Film Festival 2013 – Florence, ITMedia 10-10, Festival du court-métrage de Namur 2013 – BEReligion Today Film Festival 2013 – Trento, ITFestival La Première Fois 2014 – Aix en Provence, FRTraverse Vidéo 2014 – Toulouse, FRFestival Pointdoc 2014 – Paris, FR – Mention spéciale du jury Première créationLago Film Fest 2014 – Lago, ITRegards au longs-courts Festival 2014 (Trouville, France) – Prix du publicFestival de l’Histoire de l’Art 2014 – Fontainebleau, FRInstants Vidéos 2016 – Marseille, FR
Une production Le Fresnoy, Studio des Arts Contemporains avec le soutien de l’Akademie der bildenden Künste WienDistribution : Le Fresnoy, Studio des arts contemporainsContact : ntrebik@lefresnoy.netDistribution Italia : SCIARA Film ProductionDiffusion : RAI TV (Italia)VOD : Univerciné, Mymovies.it, Mubi
Equipe/Team
Réalisation/Director : Joël CurtzImage/Image : Raphaël DanielSon/Sound : Joël CurtzMontage/Editing : Laureline Delom
Articles/Press (selection)
article – Jean-Paul Fargier – Turbulences Vidéo (fr)_article – Metropolitan (it)_article Exibart (it)
article Il Fatto Quotidiano (it)_Interview – Joël Curtz – SensoProjekt_article – Valle Sabbia News – Gavardo (it)
article – Undo.net (it)_article Bianet – Murat Türker (tk)article – Julien Lagorce – Traverse vidéos (fr)
And more here :
Publication of Arrested Welcome – Hospitality in Contemporary Art – by Irina Aristarkhova (eng.)
Text – Elena Marchesci (it)Nel corpo oltre il pippa bacca e viaggio che continua
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