VIENI
Daniela Lucato
Artist’s Statement
Il corpo tenta un dialogo con un’amica che non c’è più ma che rivive attraverso il ricordo. [The body tries a dialogue with a friend who is no longer there but who lives again through memory.]
Inspired by the poems from Antonella Sica’s "La memoria nel corpo,” the film Vieni talks about memory. It is a story of a friendship. The body tries a dialogue with a friend who has left but who lives through her reminiscence. Sica’s poems deal with the theme of memory, death, friendship, and I found it really suggestive from the first reading. I had so many ideas that I wrote in a few days two different projects: this experimental short and the narrative short “Mamma Dorme”coming to the screen this year. I proposed the work to Chiara Franco, a dancer from Padua, my original city, where I was doing a sort of sabbatical. I really liked the way she trusted me even if we never worked together before. This short was basically based on images: it was very hard to explain them giving a sense of completeness they had for me because I wrote them as segments and we also worked in “segments”. For every scene we were preparing, I had movements and feelings I wanted to explore. I work a lot with improvisation because of my theatre background. I gave her the material to work with and I tried to drive her to the movements who were taking out these feelings. It was like putting together the pieces of my imaginary puzzle.
Selections & Screenings
GRRL HAUS CINEMA at Loophole Berlin 2019 Premiere
Festival Refluxo -Centro Cultural UFG - Brasil - Official Selection
DanzaTac2019 -Festival International de Danza Y CineDanza Canarias Islands - Official Selection
SPMAV Videoart Festival at Arts Center of the Federal University of Pelotas (UFPel)
DA FEST (International Digital Art FestIval) Sofia -Bulgaria
Inside/Outside Arts Symposium at Winchester
School of Art- Chapel Arts Studios
Link_Up Film Festival Berlin
Asimtria Festival, Perù
Boddinale
about the artist
Daniela Lucato started playing theatre in Padua (Italy) parallel to her studies at the university. After her degree in Philosophy with an anthropological thesis on contemporary dance, she moved to Rome, Wellington and finally Berlin where she worked as an actress for films and theatre. In 2013 she wrote and directed the theatre piece “Call Me Reality” that was featured in several theater festivals. “The Birthday” (2014), her first short film written and directed in Mandarin and English, has been officially selected from 25 international festivals (among these Micgenero, Frameline, ShanghaiPride where the film was also nominated for the best cinematography). In 2015 she founded the Connecting Fingers Company. Her last productions are “Connecting Fingers, “The Wheel,” and “The Rebellious Body” for the dance theatre. Her last films “When I dance” (2016) and “The Wheel” (2017) are still screening on international film festivals and “For the time being” (2018) received the award as best international short film at Downtown Urban Arts Festival/ Tribeca Film Center. She is now writing her first feature film.