Screening & Lecture: Gleaning detournement and the compilation film: Un’ora sola ti vorrei (Alina Marazzi.  Italy 2002)

This paper considers a particular form of the compilation, or found-footage, film, using Alina Marazzi’s Un’ora sola ti vorrei as its main point of reference. The film, a daughter’s portrait of her lost mother, is made up of a variety of ‘found’ material (home movies, letters, diaries, documents) that weave the story of Liseli Hoepli-Marazzi across image and sound tracks. The paper speculates about the compilation form in relation to a feminist film aesthetic and feminist histories, particularly in relation to time, voice and authority. 

Laura Mulvey is Professor of Film and Media Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London. She is the author of: Visual and Other Pleasures (Macmillan 1989; second edition 2009), Fetishism and Curiosity (British Film Institute 1996; second edition 2013), Citizen Kane (BFI Classics series 1992; second edition 2012) and Death Twenty-four Times a Second: Stillness and the Moving Image (Reaktion Books 2006). She made six films in collaboration with Peter Wollen including Riddles of the Sphinx (British Film Institute 1977; dvd publication 2013) and Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti (Arts Council 1980).  With artist/filmmaker Mark Lewis, she has made Disgraced Monuments (Channel 4 1994) and 23 August 2008 (2013). 

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