The painting
This much we know. The woman in the portrait is wearing pearls, leaning forward, smoking a cigarette. But the rest is unknown – who she was, her relationship with an unknown artist. It is open to speculation.
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Vagues de Chaleur
Phalena, a creature from the future and member of an underground society, discovers a sound documentary from 2020. She is surprised to hear women talking about menopause, pregnancy, love, ecofeminism, climate change… Inspired by these women, she decides to record a message for the surface. “If you exist, you will hear me through the slit, […]
Il était un père
A father drives his daughter to the station. They pass a car pulling a trailer, which reminds the daughter of childhood vacations spent with her father, mother and… godfather. Memories resurface. The man everyone called Godfather, who has since died… Who was he really? Why did he take up so much space in the family? […]
Diario di una fenice irrequieta
LISTENING Winner of Premio LUCIA 2020 Diario di una fenice irrequietais an audio appendix to the diary Inchiostro, storia di un’adolescente oltre l’anoressia that Caterina Minni wrote when she was 14 years old. It is an attempt to talk about anorexia through some of the words Caterina wrote and that Francesca Berardi underlined, because that diary could […]
Un estremo atto d’amore
LIVE Winner of Premio LUCIA 2020 Un estremo atto d’amore is a radio play based on In nome del popolo italiano. Storia di una malavita, Claudio Foschini’s diary. The work draws inspiration from the many points of contact between Claudio’s life and Greek tragedy: it interweaves his life of crime, his moral conflicts between will […]
Un cuscino in testa non basta. Genova, vent’anni dopo
ASCOLTO Genoa 2001, twenty years later. LUCIA hosts a panel dedicated to the twentieth anniversary of the G8 in Genoa, through listening to and comparing a number of podcast productions released during 2021: Genova per Tutti, Limoni, Vent’anni… a confrontation on generational wounds, on the dissolution of a social body, on the power of audio […]
Iolanda mi nant de nòmini
LISTENING This work has been produced with the support of LUCIA’s YASS! You Are So Sound Mentorship program. STUDIOLANDA has worked with radio producer Rikke Houd. Orlanda Sassu, a Sardinian poet and ecologist (1924-2015), carried on a lifelong practice of audio recording to archive the memory of her country and language that she feared to […]
Il était un père
LISTENING This piece is presented thanks to the collaboration of ARTE radio A father drives his daughter to the station. They pass a car pulling a trailer, which reminds the daughter of childhood vacations spent with her father, mother and… godfather. Memories resurface. The man everyone called Godfather, who has since died… Who was he […]
Het bos heeft ons niet nodig
LISTENING This work is presented in collaboration with Oorzaken Festival, Amsterdam, thanks to the support of the Ambasciata del Regno dei Paesi Bassi in Italia. Forests are the easiest, cheapest and most efficient way to sequester carbon and thus combat global warming. However, time is running out, and forests grow exasperatingly slowly. How do we […]
Drip Drop
LISTENING Can you imagine rain without the rain, the sound made only with our voices? It began like this and went even further. Metamorphoses in a personal storm, with thunder like bells running in memories of old rains from other days: how did the rain and water feel then? The dynamic of water is felt […]