From its beginning, the film mixes its narrator’s reminisces with images of the present that recall a more distant past. After her arrival in New York, the director, a young Italian woman, rents the top-floor apartment of a townhouse inhabited by an Italian-American family. Her discovery of this “Little Napoli” and the close relationship that she builds with Rosa, the center of the family, returns the filmmaker to her own past. Pieces of her life resurface: Rosa is not only a vision of a long-departed Southern Italy, as if frozen in time, but also the mirror through which the filmmaker revisits her grandmother and her mother, as well as herself. The film depicts the shared space between these two women, sometime so limited, sometime limitless, where complementary senses of belonging and foreignness are inextricable.
Team
Mariangela Ciccarello
Following philosophy studies in Bologna, Mariangela Ciccarello received a Master’s degree in Art at the University of Provence in 2009. Since then, she has worked in galleries and museums in Europe and South Africa. She has published writings on art and beyond, as well as collaborating on several art and video projects. Over the past few years, she has made a series of short films in which she experimented with different technique and narrative styles, most recently during a residency at the UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art in Brooklyn.
Irene Bartolomé
Irene is a filmmaker born in Barcelona, and currently based in Brooklyn, NY. She holds a Master degree in Creative Documentary from Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, and a BA in Film Editing from ECAM Film School, Madrid. She works professionally as a video editor and she has over seven years of experience in fiction, documentary, music videos and advertisement production. In 2012 Irene directed two documentary short films which have been shown in several international film festival. The last feature film she co-directed, Demonstration, premiered at IDFA Amsterdam and screened at MoMA Fortnight, HotDocs, True/False film festival, among others. In 2014 she was awarded a SGAE grant to attend the 2014-2015 Collaborative Studio Program at UnionDocs, NY, as one of 12 fellows from the US and abroad.
Sophie Hamacher
Sophie Hamacher, an artist and filmmaker from Berlin and Baltimore, works primarily with collage, reconfiguring documents and reclaiming them from their mere informative quality. She has directed and written projects ranging in genres from full-length documentary to art videos and experimental films. She holds a BA in Visual and Critical Studies from the School of the Art Institute in Chicago, a Meisterschüler Degree from the University of the Arts in Berlin and a Masters Degree in Education. She completed the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program in Critical Studies (2005).
Mariangela Ciccarello
Following philosophy studies in Bologna, Mariangela Ciccarello received a Master’s degree in Art at the University of Provence in 2009. Since then, she has worked in galleries and museums in Europe and South Africa. She has published writings on art and beyond, as well as collaborating on several art and video projects. Over the past few years, she has made a series of short films in which she experimented with different technique and narrative styles, most recently during a residency at the UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art in Brooklyn.
Irene Bartolomé
Irene is a filmmaker born in Barcelona, and currently based in Brooklyn, NY. She holds a Master degree in Creative Documentary from Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, and a BA in Film Editing from ECAM Film School, Madrid. She works professionally as a video editor and she has over seven years of experience in fiction, documentary, music videos and advertisement production. In 2012 Irene directed two documentary short films which have been shown in several international film festival. The last feature film she co-directed, Demonstration, premiered at IDFA Amsterdam and screened at MoMA Fortnight, HotDocs, True/False film festival, among others. In 2014 she was awarded a SGAE grant to attend the 2014-2015 Collaborative Studio Program at UnionDocs, NY, as one of 12 fellows from the US and abroad.
Sophie Hamacher
Sophie Hamacher, an artist and filmmaker from Berlin and Baltimore, works primarily with collage, reconfiguring documents and reclaiming them from their mere informative quality. She has directed and written projects ranging in genres from full-length documentary to art videos and experimental films. She holds a BA in Visual and Critical Studies from the School of the Art Institute in Chicago, a Meisterschüler Degree from the University of the Arts in Berlin and a Masters Degree in Education. She completed the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program in Critical Studies (2005).