A collaboration with the Viennese studio toikoi on media supporting the permament exhibition Warum? Der Nationalsozialismus in der Steiermark (Why? National Socialism in Styria) at the Museum für Geschichte / Universalmuseum Joanneum Graz. I joined as a director in toikoi’s video-interviews to the team behind the exhibition, though my main task was a video-timeline of Nazism […]
A POETIC VIDEOCLIP Text, Video, Voice: Roberta Cortese Translation in Reggino dialect (Reggio Calabria): Vincenza Costantino © all rights reserved Scilla, August 2021 In the Odyssey, Scylla is a monster with six long necks and dog’s heads, each with a triple row of teeth. Together with the whirlpool Charybdis, which swallows and spits out water […]
experimenting on Lady Veena goes Callas – a drag show falls apart a text by Roberta Cortese videoclip by Roberta Cortese sound by Laura Mello Maria Callas often spoke of herself in the third person and portrayed “the Callas” as an opponent of “Maria”. If Callas is to be considered an artificial figure of Maria, […]
Happiness is hard to achieve when the word “happiness” itself reactivates childhood traumas. Because for me, as an Italian, “happiness” means “felicità” and thus – unfortunately – Albano and Romina Power, my nightmare from the 80s. What I had the pleasure to do: concept, screenplay, direction, casting, acting, singing, ukulele playing, setting, photography, camera, cutting, […]
Short videos for a staged reading of Elfriede Jelinek’s Winterreise 2015 in Turin. From the seventh part: Elfi-Electra talking to her father, lost in himself. Direction: Luigi Chiarella, Roberta Cortese, Lorenzo Fontana with Sophia Leu as Elfi and Gea, Nicky & Sirius as the rabid dogs. Elfi #1 from Winterreise on Vimeo. Elfi #2 from […]
This video is related to the collective project Winterreise, which included several other videos you can all find on Vimeo. Text: Elfriede Jelinek, Winterreise – zwei (beginning) Music: Franz Schubert, Winterreise, “Der Fluss” (piano solo) Sound: Andrea Chenna The text takes inspiration from the scandal of the Hypo Alpe Adria, an Austrian bank foundation widespread […]