by Chiara Ghidelli and Chiara Granata
As part of its 2025 edition, Concorto Film Festival explores once again the third year, the themes of the Mnemosyne focus, dedicated to the reuse of archival materials. The focus recalls the title of the work with which Warburg showed the extent to which our visual culture has been crossed by images meant to return. What Mnemosyne wanted to tell then is the cultural value and the linguistic versatility of these “returning images”, so-called found footage. These are materials that are now experiencing a new springtime thanks to great successes ranging from authorship to mainstream, from niche to trend.
Confirming once again the power of archives, which have now emerged from purely popular and documentary narratives, the third edition of Mnemosyne will focus on works that, turning to found footage, address a new way of understanding fiction and the search for new narrative formulas that are able capable to transform an existing document into a new reality.
Films featured:
J’avais Fui (Running Away) by Anas Salaheldin, Anne Boffy, Germany/Egypt/France, 2025, 10′
Le Prime Volte (The First Times) by Giulia Cosentino, Perla Sardella, Italy/Spain, 2025, 16′
Some Thoughts on the Common Toad by G. Anthony Svatek, USA, 2023, 11′
The Flowers Stand, Silently Witnessing by Theo Panagopoulos, UK, 2024, 17′
Vollupya by Éri Sarmet, Jocimar Dias Jr., Brazil, 2024, 9′