An Interview with Federica Foglia

by José Sarmiento Hinojosa

 

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[... Life helped us to revisit our beliefs about cinema, and patiently we constructed this text, which is a palimpsest of ideas and feelings marked by the passage of time—a somewhat whimsical analogy very relevant to Foglia’s own creative process in working with found footage.

 

Through collage, grafting, decoupage, and détournement, Foglia’s films function as palimpsests where delicate fragments of memory are settled in layers of meaning. Living simultaneously in the past and the present, inside and outside, being and not being: diaspora and opacity (Fantassút/Rain on the Borders, 2016); the universes we inhabit and the ways we inhabit them (Currents/Perpendicolare Avanti, 2021); architecture, gentrification, the Benjaminian Umwelt where affections come from our own environment (Skyscraper Film, 2023); sexuality, agency, nature (Film Negativo/Positivo, 2023) as well as its opposite (Film Positivo/Negativo, 2023); and Foglia’s latest film to date, Glitter for Girls (2024), a playful prank that uses water tattoos for children.

 

The palimpsest, it seems, also allows for a childlike gaze.This interview is divided into three parts and spans the gamut of three years; hence, nearly nine thousand words that fall short of describing the breadth of this tangible text—ultimately, a manuscript/manifesto that invites the eye (and fingertips) to inhabit the cosmos that is Federica Foglia’s filmography.] CONTINUE TO FULL INTERVIEW

 

Lima, Toronto, Milan

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