by Chiara Ghidelli and Chiara Granata
For its 2024 edition, Concorto Film Festival has decided to carry on the project started last year with the Mnemosyne focus. Dedicated to the reuse of archive materials, the focus takes the title of Warburg’s well-known work, which has demonstrated how much our visual culture has been crossed by pictures bound to come back. What Mnemosyne wanted to transmit is, then, the cultural value and linguistic versatility of these “pictures which come back”, the so-called found footage. These materials are actually experiencing a new beginning nowadays, throughout some great success that range from authorship to mainstream, from niche to trend.
In addition to confirming the power of archives that have emerged by now from purely popular and documentary stories, the second edition of Mnemosyne aims at going down an even more defined path through those narratives that are able to describe different worlds. It is a research throughout a new way of conceiving fiction and towards new narrative formulas, able to start from the document and make it the basis for new inventions.
Films featured:
A Missed Call, Francesco Manzato, Italy, 2024
La Noche Del Minotauro, Julana Zuluaga Montoya, Colombia, 2023
Quantum Dot – Fast Forward, Joe Pickett, Luxembourg, 2019
Teen Girl Fantasy, Marisa Hoika, Canada, 2023
The Same The Other, Bohau Liu, Switzerland, 2023
The Veiled City, Natalie Cubides-Brady, UK, 2023