Giulia Montineri

With a Roman mother and a Corsican father, Giulia Montineri grew up on the island. During her studies in Literature and Anthropology, she made short films in a self-taught and self-produced manner with friends. A member of the LUNDI SOIR association, she leads documentary writing workshops to complement this collective self-training. In her work, she questions the folklorization of identities, neocolonialism, and popular representations. In 2019, she returned to Corsica to investigate the myths of local matriarchy with charismatic elders, ZIE (52′, 2020). She continues her reflections on everyday sexism with #SAINTEJULIE, currently in the editing phase.

My Roman grandparents live in Infernetto, a “little hell,” and watch Rai continuously. What they think today is nothing more than the internalization of a national television that I see as fascistic, even fascist. For me, they embody what Pasolini feared. His trajectory and writings help me better understand my grandparents beyond the painful tension between unconditional love and political rejection. Interposing my camera between them, the television, and myself helps me to ease our disagreements. What do we ingest, digest, and assimilate after watching so many hours of television in a row?