HUNGER

Fame is a video performance work that arises from the need to question the gaze that nourishes and
shapes our ways of relating and the construction of our own identity. In this act / manifesto we witness
the birth of a body that from the first breath undergoes the violence within which it remains trapped. It is a
consumerist and sexualized gaze that violates the nature of the creature itself which in turn consumes,
devours without ever nourishing itself. The work investigates the process of emancipation from the
dominant gaze that the subject / object still lives and undergoes. The body is our primary instrument of
personal knowledge, the seat of emotions and experiences; it reflects culture, imaginaries and everything
we subconsciously absorb. How much can the gaze deform the body? And our way of approaching the
body of the other? If we changed our gaze, how would society itself change? What do we want? What do
we want, free from this gaze?

  • Giulia Chiara Zini Marini Ferretti
    Director
  • Giulia Chiara Zini Marini Ferretti
    Writer
  • Giulia Chiara Zini Marini Ferretti
    Producer
  • Chiara Marini Ferretti
    Key Cast
  • Project Type:
    Performance, Other
  • Runtime:
    13 minutes 12 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    October 8, 2021
  • Production Budget:
    0 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Italy
  • Language:
    Italian
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Giulia Chiara Zini Marini Ferretti

Chiara Marini Ferretti:
Born in Livorno on 7/6/1991. Documentary maker, video artist and performer. After a humanistic and
theatrical training, she specializes in documentary filmmaking at the Civic School of Cinema in Milan.
You identify art as a means to investigate the human being, in his social, intimate and political dimension;
it is through the relationship that she tries to reveal the intrinsic truth that inhabits herself and others.

Giulia Zini:
Born in Genoa on 2/10/1997. She graduated from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts with a specialization in New Technologies of Art. In addition to the three-year course, he attended the Documentary course of the Luchino Visconti School of Cinema, concluding his studies in 2021. Ranging between documentary,
photography, experimental cinema, performance and installations, he constitutes his personal style in a perennial research inside and outside of himself. In 2021 you made your first two documentaries, in collaboration, both selected at important festivals on the Italian scene.

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Director Statement

We are an artistic duo formed by Chiara Marini Ferretti (Performer, documentary filmmaker, video artist) and Giulia Zini (documentary filmmaker, video artist, editor). We have our roots in the world of video art and documentary cinema; visual arts and performing arts converge in the sign of a continuous research, in which the different artistic codes, while maintaining their specificity, become at the same time capable of generating new forms of expression.
We practice a performative video research on the politics of intimacy and of the body, where the relationship is a fertile ground for comparison and for the discovery of new possibilities. Our poetics originates in a free and sacred space that goes beyond the socially and culturally imposed borders, embracing a fluid and aware vision of the relationship, of identity, of gender, of communication; all these dimensions and themes are explored by us through a profound work of deconstruction, often taken to the extreme.
We always work on investigating border places between inside and outside and we look for the space where it's possible to build a new way of existing in relationship with each other and in relationship with ourselves, in an authentic way.
Our performative art is supported by the search for what "authenticity" means and arises from an urgency for catharsis which, once put into form, reveals hidden truths to us. In this sense, the form of durational performance supports us as by expanding the working time, rationality and control give way to immediate communication that goes beyond social boundaries. We often find universal tools suitable for offering themselves to active experimentation by the public.
It's like moving along a path where our cultural identity is reflected in the metamorphosis, in the process of doing, in a continuous exchange that tells of spiritual-psychic transformation and growth, stimulating a collective questioning. The contamination of the body performance with the audiovisual language is powerful: it allows us to maintain an active dialogue with the video work, even after some time and simultaneously to work with the gaze which is a central node of our artistic investigation as it builds so much part of the relationships between individuals.