CONFINI
Alina Marazzi, 2014, 12’
Lines of hooded men climb up with difficulty a snow-covered slope, hauling heavy equipment with thick ropes. They are surrounded by a snow storm that overlaps with the blizzard of scratches and the grain of film from a hundred years ago. Child-soldiers grown old before their time rises silently from the trenches. In a country court the community dances in celebration of a young couple’s oath that bears the promise of the future.
Alina Marazzi (b. 1964) investigates the relationship between film and cultural identity, exploring events of the recent past and present in Italy through a gendered perspective based on women’s biographical experiences. She interrogates the role played by ‘technologies of memory’ by problematizing the nature of found footage and archival material. Her work posits home movies as a collective mise-en-scène of memory, where not only personal experience but also social, cultural and aesthetic codes are inscribed.