The Notes of Anna Azzori / A Mirror that Travels through Time
© Katharina Müller
Shot between 1972-75, the film ANNA by Italian Underground directors Alberto Grifi and Massimo Sarchielli observed a young drug addict expecting a child. Ruhm's essay film draws on this previous work and asks about the place of women in a world that was full of discrimination back in the 70s and remains so today.
With this Italian journey through time, Constanze Ruhm continues her variations of modern cinema´s female characters. In a dual essayistic movement, the artist researches the history of a film’s shooting and uses the found material for an imaginary transcription of a role. Following Godard´s Nana S., she now selects Anna, Roman Cinéma Vérité by Alberto Grifi and Massimo Sarchielli, which in the critical gesture of the 1970s, makes the gaze a political issue. Using the archive images and sounds as starting point, Gli appunti di Anna Azzori changes the perspective from which the truth content of the documentary-like staging...
Gli appunti di Anna Azzori / Uno specchio che viaggia nel tempo
2020
Austria, Germany, France
72 min