I studied filmmaking production and documentary and I graduated just two months before the pandemic started and Italy was locked. The perception and the urgency I felt before towards films, images and representation changed radically. In the beginning, it was nausea, there was a fullness of narratives and stories; in many forms, it seemed like I could not escape and I could not take a position or even develop an articulated consideration - I kind of lost my point of view.

It is a fact that the increase of devices, and their accessibility by a larger number of people, is influencing the perception of the self and the other. This trend has introduced in our everyday life many issues, among which, I believe, consent is one of the most interesting. In terms of art, specifically in documentary filmmaking, this debate has always been very present; many authors have in fact been interrogated about any possible agreement with the subject represented. For example on the legitimacy and necessity of filming violence, letting it happen in front of the camera, or whether it is right to pay a character in a documentary film, with a production and a distribution.
Is it possible to narrate any story? Is that right? How has changed over time the way in which we absorb and process images?

I think that all of these questions have a strong relationship with the care towards the "subject" and the idea we have of exploitation, regarding us and the other.
Therefore, I’ve been trying to put in discussion the way in which I’ve always experienced filming and to be filmed and what kind of relation should I establish between myself and the subject in the act of filming.

During Cheerful Weaves I would like to screen 4 films together and exchange on them. They are important for me and related somehow to the past of our society and the manner in which we approach the subject and images. I would like to focus my research on the way in which we remember frames, what catches our attention in a film and also how we re-elaborate this connection exploring personal experiences and memories. I would propose to do so by documenting our encounter at Libken, as a diary for Cheerful Weaves, giving attention to any doubt or questions raised by all the participants. If some wouldn't like to be filmed or recorded, we can find a solution together, as their contribution could also be something just written on the screen, a keyword, a phrase, a picture, always respecting the relation that one wants to have with the camera.