Alina Marazzi
Alina Marazzi, born in 1964, is one of the major documentary filmmakers of the new generation of Italian filmmakers. Her first documentary, For Once More Hour with You (2002), lays the foundations of her poetics, where family films and archives allow her to explore political issues through personal experiences. In 2007, she directed We Want Roses Too, a poetic documentary on fifteen years of struggles for women's social emancipation, which blends the private project with collective history through the use of archival footage and newspaper fragments. Her films are regularly screened in festivals in Italy and abroad, as well as in exhibitions. In addition to her work as a filmmaker, she teaches filmmaking in Italy. She now lives and works in Milan.
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Forever
_Per Sempre_ (_Forever_) examines the reasons that spur certain women to choose a religious life within a monastic community. The film starts with the fundamental question that prompts the film director to confront this reality: how is it possible, today, for a woman to make an extreme and permanent choice, one that will last forever?
For One More Hour with You
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The face of a woman. Two voices joking, then a popular song, _Un'ora sola ti vorrei_. This face and this voice are all that remain for Alina Marazzi of her mother, who committed suicide when she was seven and of whom she tries to retrace the existence through sequences filmed by her maternal grandfather, between 1920 and 1970. These silent images are accompanied by the filmmaker’s voice as she ...
We Want Roses Too
Anita, Teresa and Valentina have never met. They lived in Italy in the 1960s and 1970s, at different ages and in different cities. But their true stories, recorded in diaries, are part of an ideal continuity, and bear witness to family and political struggles, personal and collective, to assert their autonomy, their identity and their rights in a patriarchal country. *Vogliamo anche le rose* (*...
Forever
_Per Sempre_ (_Forever_) examines the reasons that spur certain women to choose a religious life within a monastic community. The film starts with the fundamental question that prompts the film director to confront this reality: how is it possible, today, for a woman to make an extreme and permanent choice, one that will last forever?
For One More Hour with You
Subscription access
The face of a woman. Two voices joking, then a popular song, _Un'ora sola ti vorrei_. This face and this voice are all that remain for Alina Marazzi of her mother, who committed suicide when she was seven and of whom she tries to retrace the existence through sequences filmed by her maternal grandfather, between 1920 and 1970. These silent images are accompanied by the filmmaker’s voice as she ...
We Want Roses Too
Anita, Teresa and Valentina have never met. They lived in Italy in the 1960s and 1970s, at different ages and in different cities. But their true stories, recorded in diaries, are part of an ideal continuity, and bear witness to family and political struggles, personal and collective, to assert their autonomy, their identity and their rights in a patriarchal country. *Vogliamo anche le rose* (*...
