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Marisa

2000 · 9 min

A quiet, fragmentary elegy that drifts between archival footage and home movies, asking you to sit with loss rather than follow a story.

Directed by
Jacopo Quadri
Genres
Documentary
Overview
Marisa is a film for Marisa, my mother, Marisa Rusconi who has been gone for a year. I wanted to tell this personal story, with vaguely biographical elements of Marisa and my sensations on detachment and life, using films from the Rai archive on the subject of migration. In this material, broad and open to the world, I found the elements with which I built the backbone of the film. Then I inserted images and sounds recorded by me in the last few months and fragments of Super 8 filmed by my father, Franco, in the 60s.

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Directed by
Jacopo Quadri
Genres
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    slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
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    demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • grief
    • memory
    • family
    • isolation
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    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    • documentary
    • nonlinear
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    • Language none
    • Violence none
    • Sex none
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    Humour0
    Realism9
    Romance1
    Tension2
    Darkness4
    Complexity7
    Emotional weight8

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    Details

    Genres
    documentary
    Directed by
    Jacopo Quadri
    Written by
    Jacopo Quadri
    Runtime
    9 min
    Country
    Italy
    Languages
    Italian

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