A king Lear

The reflection on the tragedy is combined with a family story in which the theme of the sacrifice of the youngest son is crossed, a theme linked to Lear and analyzed by Giuseppe Cocchiara in the writing The legend of King Lear: an essay on an ethnological interpretation of the novelistic group Sacrifice of the youngest son. The politics, the kingdom, the house, the mother or the justice? Probably Lear and Cordelia are the same person or have the same feelings. The film is thus also a diary seen through the dream of an old man, but it is also an opportunity to trace a family tree and its underlying themes.

  • Giulia Savorani
    Director
  • Giulia Savorani
    Producer
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Experimental
  • Runtime:
    7 minutes 3 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    January 1, 2020
  • Country of Origin:
    Italy
  • Country of Filming:
    Italy
  • Shooting Format:
    Super8, HD
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Phroom Platform for visual arts
Director Biography - Giulia Savorani

Giulia Savorani (1988) is visual artist and filmmaker. She graduated in Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera. Afterwards she deepened her studies in filmmaking at the Civica Scuola di Cinema Luchino Visconti in Milan. In 2019 She completed the master Moving Images Art at the Iuav University of Venice.

Her films and installations have been presented during T-short Film Online Festival, Experimental film out-of-competition (Lithuania 2021), International Short Film Festival Canton (China 2020), Short Movie Film Club Festival (Minsk Belarus, 2020), Green Ideal Biennale Technology Paratissima (Torino 2020), Biennale IKSV parallel events (Istanbul, 2019), Macro Asilo (Rome, 2019), 55th and 52nd Mostra Internazionale del Nuovo Cinema di Pesaro, Filmmaker Festival (Milan Italy, 2016, 2018, 2019), Invideo 27th international video and film festival (Milan Italy, 2017). She took part in artistic residencies at Bains Connective (Brussels 2014) and Re-framing home (Cagliari, Turin, Bergamo, 2017), Creative residencies curated by Cristina Muccioli (Mondolfo (PU) 2012). Since 2019 she have been collaborating as an audio video operator for Zapruder Filmmakersgroup. She work as a Yoga teacher since 2011 and as a teacher in the artistic field since 2017. She recently made an animation project for the exhibition The Glass Ark, animals in the Pierre Rosenberg collection, 2021 at Le stanze del Vetro, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice.

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Director Statement

The media I work with are video, animation, analogue and digital audiovisual techniques, installations, drawing and painting, following a path of continuous technical and linguistic experimentation.
My research lies on the borderline between visual arts and cinema. As a consequence of an intolerance for the absolute meaning of the single image, I generate stratified narratives, far from the classic narrative mode based on story and plot. Rather, I create flows of images and meanings that are established in the midst of the creative process, often showing its devices. I pursue an idea of art and cinema as thought processes in action, which consequently define themselves as possibilities of emancipation from the subtle mechanisms of imposition and overpowering intimate and social. Artistic practice itself becomes the scene of a learning process in which I probe the psychic and bodily relationships constantly activated in our daily lives. My attention is often directed towards the relationship between human beings, animals, plants and bacterial micro-organisms, with particular attention to the techniques of coexistence between them. I frequently compose with archive material, both personal and from institutions or friends or why not strangers.