March 28, 2024
Friday April 5during an evening organized by Turin Cinema Museum and the CSC – National Cineteca in collaboration with theArchive of the women of Piedmontthe short films made by will be presented for the first time in Turin Dacia Maraini between 1976 and 1982. Five shorts of which she is the great author director, screenwriter but also operator and editor. These are films produced completely independently, at a very low budget, and over which Dacia Maraini has complete control. In an original way, they reflect the themes and concerns of her literary production. After remaining invisible for a long time these films, they were acquired and digitized from the CSC-Cineteca Nazionale. The evening, with free admission, will take place from 8.00 pm to Cinema Massimo in Turin and will be introduced Annamaria Licciardello (Head of the Cultural Dissemination Area of the CSC – National Film Library) and by Elena Petricola (Archive of women of Piedmont) in conversation with Dacia Maraini (which will be present in the link).
The Sleeping Beauty
(Italy 1976-78, Super8, 31′, col.)
“What I tried to “tell” is Rosa’s close and distorted relationship, common to many women who are used to living alone with themselves, with objects that have become animated and unreal and the relationship which is completely silent, but no less clear and explosive of Rosa with her feminine unconscious” (D. Maraini). With Michela Caruso, Cosimo Milone, Anne Sibers. With the collaboration of Bea Bordone, Giuseppina Domina, Bruno Faidotto, Antonietta Marasco.
My father my love
(1976-79, Super8, 23′, col.)
“This My father my love it is the re-release of another film with the same title which was shot in ’77 and was then lost in ’78 by a film laboratory to which it had been entrusted to make a duplicate. The theme is the same. The actors are the same, except for the little girl. The environment is also the same. But many things, many details have changed, a film remade from memory cannot be an exact copy of another. Fede, the protagonist of the film, is a theater actress who, while putting on clown make-up for a show, thinks back to her relationship with her father: a relationship of tenderness, desire and hatred. In the mirror, the seductions of the handsome man she loved in childhood resurface, the repeated attempt to kill him without ever succeeding, the loves with a boy who turns out to be the exact copy of her father when she was young, the jealousies, the fears, the doubling that this love caused in her. (D. Maraini). With Federica Giulietti, Ian Sutton, Ginestra Bianconi (the little girl).
Milk games
(Italy 1979, Super8, 10′, col.)
Milk in its symbolic and ancestral dimension is the fulcrum of this short film. Primary source of female nourishment, abundance and life, milk flows, is drunk, steeps and nourishes. The woman-mother is its dispenser, the one who safeguards its vital power. The color of milk, however, also recalls male seminal fluid and the dimension of the sensual exchange between man and woman. With Bernadette Sibers, Selvaggia Mora, Cosimo Milone.
Giustina Laurenzi/Dacia Maraini/Paola Raguzzi
Trio
(Italy 1981, Super8, 24′, col.)
Three women leave for a beach holiday. The joy, the carefreeness of days on the beach, lunches on the terrace, lazy afternoons punctuate this “holiday film” which slowly reveals and builds the sensual and playful intimacy of the relationship that binds the protagonists/directors.
Giustina Laurenzi/Dacia Maraini/Paola Raguzzi
The blue shawl
(Italy 1981, super8, 42′, col.)
A woman, director of advertising films, catches the eye of a mysterious young woman dressed in white during an evening of dancing on the terrace of a bar and is fascinated by her. Although busy with her work, the woman returns to the bar several times in the hope of seeing the girl again who is always in the company of a man. She follows her while she is on her bicycle or when she sees her getting off a train, but she never manages to catch up with her. One evening, however, he follows her behind some trees and the two of them kiss, the woman puts her blue shawl on her shoulders, but the young woman suddenly runs away from her. The next evening, the young woman and the man accompanying her arrive on the terrace dressed as newlyweds, she dances feverishly, but he suddenly shoots her. Dream and reality overlap in this which is Dacia Maraini’s most “traditionally” narrative film, but in which she continues – together with Giustina Laurenzi and Paola Raguzzi – to put relationships between women at the centre. with Giovannella De Luca, Renata Laurenzi, Alberto Maganzini, Antonella Tomassi, Mauro Giachino, Beppe Lancianesi
https://www.cinemamassimotorino.it/i-film-di-dacia-maraini/
“Sleeping Beauty” by Dacia Maraini
“The blue shawl” by Dacia Maraini
“My father, my love” by Dacia Maraini
“Dacia Maraini trio
“Milk Games” by Dacia Maraini
