O-PH-ELIA

During the first lockdown of the pandemic, I collaborated from Rotterdam with Italian artist and poet Laura Fusco who created O-ph-elia

A woman plunges/re-emerges in/from a wood: will she be the same?

Loss of self? Individuation? Birth? Conquest/recovery of a different relationship with body and nature?

A video between poetry, dance, and environment, which echoes painting and tells the profound identity journey of women.

After the Italian stages, including the literary and theatrical one that transformed Venice into a great set, a new international stage for the ongoing project Cerco Ophelia by Laura Fusco. This time the countries involved are Italy and the Netherlands. Fusco's poetry meets the Spanish/resident in The Netherlands dancer and choreographer Marta Reig Torres for a video shot in Rotterdam and directed by Silvia Pesce. A work in which the echo of painting is strong and which takes up and develops the poetry and dance combination dear to the poetess and on which she has been working since 2012, with events realised among others at Laborgras, Berlin, and at the Villa della Regina in collaboration with the Ministry of Artistic and Cultural Heritage. With O-ph-elia Laura Fusco opens the III edition of the Izmit Short Film Festival 2020.

Credits

O-ph-elia  by Laura Fusco

Texts by Laura Fusco

Dancer and choreographer: Marta Reig Torres 

Project video by Laura Fusco

Direction by Silvia Pesce

Acting voices Manon Albizzati and Elsa Pion

Video shooting by Duncan Meuffels

Video editing: Silvia Pesce