PETROLIA
Italy | 2024 | 17 min | col.
“Kuçovë, Albania.” Or rather, Petrolia, Albania, according to the story of the filmmaker’s grandmother. A former oil hub now decommissioned, Petrolia is the childhood place of filmmaker Giulia Mancassola, who does not go back to Albania to remember the stages of her life but to show a location in which historical and geographical coordinates get blurred. She depicts a series of characters who are coping with the interrupted life in the small town, dominated by a sense of heaviness and decadence - therefore, oil is its perfect metaphor. The colourful and diverse humankind tries hard and in many ways to coexist in this limbo, in which discomfort mixes with rebellion and violence – with fire symbolising both death and liberation – but also with play and a search for a new feminine identity. Influenced by Harmony Korine’s style, Petrolia is a stimulating visual adventure in which the borders between memory and reality blend with ethereal sounds and gangsta rap. (c.c.)
Free entry
Local Time
- Timezone: America/New_York
- Date: 06 Nov 2024
- Time: 5:30
Location
- Cinema Astra - Piazza Cesare Beccaria, 9 50121 Florence (FI)
Organizer
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Giulia Mancassola
Giulia Mancassola (Soave, 1998) studied Foreign Languages and Literature in Florence for a year. She decided to interrupt, however, to begin studies in the Media Design and Multimedia Arts course at NABA in Milan, where she worked as a Director and Art Director. Marking her interest is the Poetics of the horrid, which has delineated a style to which she feels he belongs.
