ESSERE DONNE
O.V. in Italian subtitled in English and Spanish
An emblematic work that anticipates the feminist movement, in the simple but radical gesture of contrast between the images sold by advertising of "women" and real women: workers, mothers, who struggle to make ends meet.
This short will be screened in short’s Session #2 of Cecilia Mangini
Direction: Cecilia Mangini
Script: Cecilia Mangini, Felice Chilanti
Cinematography: Luciano Graffigna
Editing: Marco Menenti
Music: Egisto Macchi
Cecilia Mangini
It takes courage to hold a camera as Cecilia Mangini has done so throughout her life. Firstly, because she began her career as a photographer, in a male-dominated industry, later becoming the first woman to direct documentaries in post-war Italy. And secondly, for the deep, ingenious, magnetic and combative vision she has of the world around her. A militant sharpness that she keeps to this day, at the age of 93, a mythical filmmaker who would refuse to be described as such. This sessions are structured in three segments to take us around her cinema (besides being a photographer and filmmaker, Mangini has also been a scriptwriter and writer) opening a door to a universe in which militant concerns (about the situation of women, about marginalised Italy, about the ways of life left behind by industrialisation) merge with a very original and powerful conception of cinema. Both of which enable her work to remain as energetic and future-oriented today as it did 60 years ago.