Cinema - Medici Residency

Marianne Dautrey

Marianne Dautrey

03/07/2023 / 04/08/2023

Start of residency 03/07/2023
End of residency 04/08/2023

After a life as a journalist (Mouvement magazine, Monde des Livres), editor (Gallimard, INHA editions), translator of German philosophy and literature (Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. Adorno), collaborator with numerous publishers, authors, artists alone or in groups (Marc Pataut, collectif le Perou and Siwa), Marianne Dautrey directed her first creative documentary in 2017-2018 (Bazin Roman, co-directed with Hervé Joubert-Laurencin) and is about to complete her second (Fontaine. Thirty-three minutes at documenta fifteen, co-directed with Hervé Joubert-Laurencin).

Project at the Villa Medici:

The starting point taken by the director is the film “Claro”, made in Rome in 1975 by the Brazilian in exile Glauber Rocha, with Juliet Berto, his companion at the time, with Carmelo Bene. This film deals with several issues that are still burning: exile, the South, political blockage and speaking out, poetry, and the desperate search for light.

In the almost fifty years since “Claro”, something of the democratic dialogue and “clarity” has still been lost in the Rome and Italy of 2023, which has brought far-right forces into government. Paradoxically, this is happening at the same time as Brazil decides to reconnect with its democratic forces. Thus, in 2023, a strange chiasmus is played out in relation to the Rome of 1975, through which the exiled Rocha passed for Claro. Marianne d’Autrey proposes to question this chiasmus with the city of Rome as the actor, its sounds, its light and the words that circulate there.