Private Project

Self-Portrait

"In Self-Portrait, Federica Foglia (re)constructs her dislocated immigrant identity through the home movies of others, enacting a search for the self and creating a work of striking filmic autopoiesis." Jonathan Ali

A short self-portrait of the filmmaker, consisting of recycled 8mm footage of Canadian landscapes, mixed materials, ink and film cement.

As an immigrant, looking for, and collecting, past images of Canada is a way of imagining a past that I don’t have in this country. The re-writing of the self is produced through the archive of others via associative montage.

Upcoming Exhibitions:
Images Festival, Toronto, Canada (May 2021)
Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, UK (April 2021)
Fisura International Festival of Experimental Film & Video, Mexico 2021
Antimatter [Media Art], Deluge Gallery, Vancouver, Canada 2020
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  • Federica Foglia
    Director
    Fantassùt / Rain on the Borders (2016) - Exit/Entrance (2015)
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short, Student, Other
  • Genres:
    Experimental, short, autobiography
  • Completion Date:
    September 20, 2020
  • Production Budget:
    2,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Canada
  • Country of Filming:
    Canada
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    8mm
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Black & White and Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    Yes - York University
  • ANTIMATTER Media Art
    Victoria
    Canada
    October 15, 2020
    World Premiere
  • IMAGES FESTIVAL
    Toronto
    Canada
    May 23, 2021
  • ALCHEMY FILM AND MOVING IMAGE FESTIVAL
    Hawick
    United Kingdom
    April 21, 2021
  • FISURA
    Mexico City
    Mexico
    March 5, 2021
Distribution Information
  • CFMDC
    Distributor
    Country: Worldwide
Director Biography - Federica Foglia

Federica Foglia is a transnational visual artist and writer. She holds a BA in Multimedia Languages and Digital Computing for Humanities: History of Art, Theatre, and Cinema from the University of Naples L'Orientale, an MFA in Film from York University, Toronto and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Cinema and Media Arts at York University.
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She is interested in issues of immigration, citizenship and identity, displacement, women of the diaspora, migrant temporalities, and finding a visual language to investigate these experiences. Her practice revolves around recycled cinema, amateur filmmaking, imaginary archives. She works within the domestic space to remediate found-footage films. She is currently working on a project that involves eco-friendly emulsion lifting techniques of 16mm orphan films from private estates and family archives.
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Her works have been exhibited and won awards in several art galleries and film festivals, including Images Festival, Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival, Anthology Film Archives, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Alicante MACA, BIDEODROMO, BilbaoArte Foundation, Toronto International Film Festival, Antimatter [Media Art], Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, Human Rights Watch Film Festival, Mostra Internazionale del Cinema di Genova, Vancouver International Film Festival, Reykjavík International Film Festival, Visions in the Nunnery - Whitechapel UK, Groupe Intervention Vidéo Montreal, SCAD Savannah International Film Festival, ULTRAcinema Festival Mexico, Muestra de Video Arte Faenza, MIMESIS Documentary Festival, Camerimage.
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She has recently received the Joseph-Armand Bombardier Scholarships and the RBC Arts Access Fund Award for newcomer artists.

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