«I imagined a fictitious and impossible world, I wanted to play with the limits of documentary and cinema, using visual sources of different quality and dignity, even non-cinematic ones». Angela Norelli, director and editor with his latest short film We should all be futurists has won over critics80th Venice Film Festival. To the Garden of Ideas his first work is screened (16 April, 8pm). Children like to hide. A documentary made with archive material, whose only narrative voice is that of a scholar who inherits the diary of a colleague who left for the Amazon convinced that he can find the last tribe of children left on earth in the forest.
How was this short film born?
«At the documentary course at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (in Rome, where she graduated ed) we had to edit a work written by us. I immediately asked myself what made an image cinematic: the more I mixed drones, action cameras, cell phones and film, the more I realized it was the childish attitude that gave meaning to the film. Leaving the classic languages I played with my imagination, this is how it was born Children like to hide».
Only archive material, did you already have a story in mind?
«More or less yes, I wanted to work on already existing material, for some time I had been thinking about documentaries on childhood, which looked at children as aliens who perform incomprehensible gestures and actions. The construction of the documentary then came step by step: a piece of history was added in my head every time I observed the contemporary images taken from the archive.”
Even in your latest documentary We should all be futurists we start from archive material, is this a characteristic of you?
“With Children like to hide , the archive was my choice, with the latter I couldn't do without it: the short was born as the conclusion of a module at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, the only obligation being to produce it with already existing material. At first I was a little scared, I didn't want to repeat myself, then I managed to find a different key. I understood that the archive is not a limit, it is versatile, it allows you to explore various registers and experiment.”
What theme will you touch on in the next documentary, always a social theme?
«I'm currently working on a short fiction film. I want it to be contemporary and intimate, it will touch on some aspects of the human condition.”
Source: Vanity Fair
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