Toad, Leaf, Grass, Rock, 2020, 16mm, black and white.
Federica Foglia retient le medium et n’en fait pas un média ; elle provoque des sensations et n’accumule pas des preuves ; elle fait film en devenir/current… Sans provocation narrative, elle active la matérialité du film et le bleu est la dernière couche après corrosion du jaune puis du rouge. Et cela, s’exprime, en ouverture du film – avanti – par les amorces diverses de divers types et genres de films et leur réitération non pas à la fin – ce serait trop attendu – mais presque. Et si c’était cela le bonheur du voir jamais arrêté. Et retour au titre. Simone Dompeyre
Currents / Perpendicolare Avanti
16mm and super 16mm to digital
18 min. | B&W and Color | sound | no dialogue |
Italy/Canada
2021
Currents / Perpendicolare Avanti is a camera-less, hand-made, 16mm film collage, based on the artist's autobiographical experience as an immigrant. In three movements, the film explores the dynamics of inhabiting the in-between space of moving between multiple countries and their temporalities, through visual and sound abstraction, interlacing and recycling pre-existing film materials and, using fragments from anonymous orphan films.
Utilizing these so-called scraps, Currents is a film of extensive remediation, treated by hand through the use of the emulsion lifting technique, thereby re-imagining, re-constructing, and de-constructing the liminality of immigrant life.
The re-writing of the self in Currents is produced through the archives of others, via associative montage and repeated performative acts on the celluloid surface of the film.
