Notes on Anna Azzori (2020) Screening & Masterclass w/ Constanze Ruhm放映及大師班

Readings, Reflections and Resistance: Three Feminist Films by Constanze Ruhm
解讀、沉思與抵抗：Constanze Ruhm 女性主義電影三選
Supported by Austrian Consulate 項目由奧地利領事館支持

The Notes of Anna Azzori – A Mirror That Travels Through Time
Screening & Masterclass w/ Constanze Ruhm 放映及大師班
03.29, 2-4:30PM
Kino, 1/F Eaton HK

The Notes of Anna Azzori – A Mirror That Travels Through Time (2020, 72 minutes, in Italian and German with English subtitles)

For years, Anna Azzori was known largely as the homeless, lice-infested and pregnant subject of a much-revered Italian documentary which propelled irreverent underground filmmakers Alberto Grifi and Massimo Sarchielli into countercultural icons. As the duo basked in their glory, the teenager – the one Sarchielli “rescued” from a piazza in Rome and housed in his apartment for three years – vanished from view and became a cipher at best and a phantom at worst. Observing how the two men merely tried to “make a film about reality, instead of changing reality”, Ruhm provides Anna with an afterlife in which the young woman (played by Gemma Vannuzzi) wander into the countryside to join a mythical female collective. In parallel, archive footage of Italy’s feminist movement during the turbulent 1970s provides a context in which Anna Azzori’s life is given new meaning.

The screening will be followed by a masterclass by Constanze Ruhm, conducted in English.

《The Notes of Anna Azzori – A Mirror That Travels Through Time》
（2020年，72分鐘，意大利語及德語對白，英文字幕）

多年來，Anna Azzori 為人所知的形象，僅止於一部備受推崇的意大利紀錄片中，那個無家可歸、身懷六甲且長滿頭蝨的主角。該片令玩世不恭的地下電影人 Alberto Grifi 和 Massimo Sarchielli 一躍成為反主流文化的偶像。然而，當二人沐浴在榮耀之中，那位被 Sarchielli 從羅馬廣場「拯救」並在其公寓收留了三年的少女，卻從大眾視野中消失，充其量成了一個代號，甚至淪為幽靈般的幻影。

Ruhm 觀察到這兩個男人僅僅試圖「拍攝關於現實的電影，而非改變現實」，於是她為 Anna 賦予了一個來世：片中的年輕女子（由 Gemma Vannuzzi 飾演）漫步至鄉間，加入了一個神話般的女性共同體。與此同時，電影並行穿插 1970 年代動盪的意大利女性主義運動檔案影像，為 Anna Azzori 的生命賦予了全新的語境與意義。

放映後將舉行大師班，由 Constanze Ruhm 主講，並以英語進行。