Private Project

FRĀTERNǏTAS

FRĀTERNǏTAS is the fruit of the collaboration of Maria A. Listur, Luisa Berselli, and Gabriele del Papa with the participation of Emanuela Morozzi of the Chapter Library of Verona Cathedral - the Scriptorium ecclesiae Veronensis, part of the architectural complex of the cathedral and the world’s oldest continuously operating library.

This short film is Maria A. Listur's personal interpretation of the transcendent power that human experience could have and that is often preserved in physical spaces like libraries, in the cellular memory within each being, in the imperceptible...

The encounter with the world's oldest library, The Chapter Library, and its contents has nourished questions on the hypothesis of the multi-dimensionality of being, one of the founding topics of Tracing the Ephemeral, a series of multidisciplinary works of the artist :

- What if synchronisms, interconnections, were the result of convergences between places, sounds, gestures (often sacred), knowledge, movements, capable of making us meet beyond the linearity of time?

- What if we could vibrate to the point of transcending the here and now to reunite in an eternal FRĀTERNǏTAS at the service of what has allowed us to exist ?

- What if the web were this space to be guarded and mended to save as well as save us?
As Roberto Juarroz reflects in poem 64 of "Poesia Verticale": "There are certain hours / in which / the confusion of the air / the doubt of the light seem to shine through (...) It may be that only / the macerated remains of a network remain."
Throughout the creation of FRĀTERNǏTAS, the timeless essence of The Chapter Library has been a constant source of inspiration and gratitude for the artist.

The soundscape grew from the monochord played by Luisa Berselli along with Maria A. Listur and Michele Truglio’s free adaptation of “Los Hermanos” by Atahualpa Yupanqui. Maria A. Listur's Post-Butoh body movement is part of the artist's research with Hiroé Habara. The cameras and the drone are guided by Gabriele del Papa with the assistance of Emanuela Morozzi.

Produced by E&G, Maria A. Listur, and Aigō pro.

  • Maria A. Listur
    Director
  • Maria A. Listur
    Writer
  • Maria A. Listur
    Producer
  • Gabriele del Papa
    Producer
  • Maria A. Listur
    Key Cast
  • Luisa Berselli
    Key Cast
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    FRĀTERNǏTAS
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Runtime:
    7 minutes 45 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    September 7, 2024
  • Production Budget:
    8,100 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    France
  • Country of Filming:
    Italy
  • Shooting Format:
    4K
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Maria A. Listur

Maria A. Listur
Actress, Director, Multidisciplinary Performer, Cultural Operator
Born in Argentina in 1964.
In the early 70s, she began studying and working in dance, theater, painting, and writing.
In the 80s she attended the "Facultad de Artes" of the Univ. Nacional de Cuyo in Argentina ; was a period in which theater teachers were trained and supervised by Galina Tolmacheva, a pupil of Konstantin Stanislavsky and his favorite pupil Féodor Komisarjévsky. In the mid-80s she moved to Buenos Aires to study with Agustin Alezzo, an esteemed Argentine theater master in the post-dictatorship years. During the same period, she met the directorial/stylistic path of Robert Sturua and his perspective on B. Brecht- always of the Moscow School of Dramatic Art and the aesthetic/philosophical influence of Fernando de Toro- former translator of Patrice Pavis' Dictionary of Theatre and writer of Theatre Semiotics ; in the following years, he will accompany her in her research on the relationship between theatrical semiotics and the body of the actor.
In 1991 she moved to Europe to continue her work and study in the field of interdisciplinarity and multidisciplinarity as part and functions of the show, in Italy she met the Teatro Povero di Grotowski which allowed her to deepen and develop a postural proposal for the actor's body.
In the mid-90s, in Italy and Germany, she was a member of the Protei theater group, under the direction of Jurji Alschitz, one of the founders and Anatoly Vasiliev of the Moscow School of Dramatic Art.
Between 2002-2012, in Rome, Italy she founded and coordinated the relazion@rte group, integrated by artists, philosophers, musicians, dancers, and writers, whose main intent was to produce and promote multicultural and interdisciplinary events under the ethical and aesthetic tutelage of Fernando de Toro of the University of Manitoba, Canada and Laura Silvestri of the University of Udine, Italy.
In 2015 she moved to Paris, France where she lives and works.
In 2017 she founded together with Laura Pazzaglia Ma-Là pro, an international group of multidisciplinary cultural production.

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Director Statement

I want to embody the vastness of what has created us and the abundance present in every aspect of life, both in everyday actions and in artistic expression. Above all, I want to recognize the immeasurable substance that sustains and connects us beyond time. It is a great privilege to seek out evidence of this interconnectedness.