[Eleventh] HaFI residency guest: Anna Marziano
As of now and for the next three months, the filmmaker Anna Marziano is a guest of the Harun Farocki Residency, realized/inaugurated in 2023 thanks to the German-French Cultural Institute Kultur Ensemble Palermo (curated by the Goethe-Institut and Institut français).
On December 8, at silent green, the filmmaker will share some reflections and images from her new film project Schiuma di mondi (Foam of Worlds), selected earlier this year by a jury composed of Carlo Chatrian, Cyril Neyrat, Clio Nicastro, and Heidi Sciacchitano within the framework of an open call on our research topic “Terms and Conditions.”
“In the past 3 years I have been diving into political ecology and I got particularly interested in its juridical dimension. By juridical dimension I mean both the climate justice processes (Urgenda case in Holland, Giudizio universale in Italy, L’affaire du siècle in France…) and the legal fights which are run by several associations around the world in order to recognise natural elements as subjects with an own legal standing (i.e. the recognition of Whanganui River’s rights in New Zealand). Why is this juridical turn interesting for our present time? Exactly because it moves against the juridification of reality and the apolitical administration of societies, operating on the very same level on which the capitalistic system operates: the legal one. In this way, each community is encouraged to practice gestures of resistance against the devious juridification of reality by supporting the reinvention of institutional and juridical categories, informed by their new sensitivities.” – A. M.
Anna Marziano’s current project revolves around the recollection of rushes and visual materials in the area of Berlin (Germany) and Venice (Italy) for her new film Schiuma di mondi (Foam of Worlds), a work which experiments with the fictional form and with the composition of heterogeneous materials, such as digital observational sequences; direct intervention on 16mm film; gathering of images produced for non-cinematographic purposes i.e. engineering 3D modeling. Schiuma di mondi aims to combine the critical reflection on media production with the utopia of an immediate sensory contact between the filmic atmospheres and the perception flows of the viewers.
Anna Marziano grew up in Italy. Her films question the ongoing transformations of subjects, communities, environments. Besides her studies in Political Sciences and Philosophy, Anna Marziano studied cinema in France at the Ateliers Varan (Paris) and Le Fresnoy Studio National (Tourcoing). Since 2009, she has been producing a consistent body of filmworks related to the documentary form, the essay form and the collaborative practices. Her works are screened in festivals and art-spaces throughout the world such as TIFF Wavelengths, Cinéma du Réel, IFFR Rotterdam, Experimenta Bangalore, National Gallery of Art Washington DC and received the support of Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan and Berliner Senat. Her artistic activities also include writing and teaching. She currently lives in Catania.
The Harun Farocki Residency is an initiative of Kultur Ensemble Palermo – Goethe-Institut Palermo, Institut français Palermo – and Harun Farocki Institut Berlin.