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Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel
Written by Tizza Covi / Photography Rainer Frimmel / Editing Tizza Covi / Starring Vera Gemma, Daniel De Palma, Sebastian Dascalu, Annamaria Ciancamerla, Walter Saabel / Produced by Vento Film
Austria/Italy, 2022 – 115’
V.O.
Vera lives in the shadow of her famous father. Tired of her superficial life and relationships, she drifts through Roman high society. When she injures a child in a traffic accident in the suburbs, she forms an intense relationship with an eight-year-old boy and his father. But soon she must realize that also in this world she is only an instrument for others.
Since 1996 Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel are working together in photography, theatre, and movie projects. In 2002 they founded their own film production company Vento Film to produce their films independently. They won several awards for their documentaries, including the Wolfgang Staudte Award at the Berlinale for Babooska. In 2007 they were honored with the “Österreichischen Förderungspreis für Filmkunst” and in 2013 with the “Österreichischen Kunstpreis für Filmkunst”.
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Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel
Written by Tizza Covi, Rainer Frimmel / Photography Rainer Frimmel / Editing Tizza Covi / Starring Patrizia Gerardi, Tairo Caroli, Asia Crippa, Walter Saabel / Produced by Rainer Frimmel
Austria/Italy, 2009 – 100’
V.O.
Abondoned in a park, the two-year- old girl Asia is found by Patti, a circus woman living with her husband Walter in a trailer park in San Basilio on the outskirts of Rome. With the help of Tairo, a teenager who lives with his grandma in an adjacent container, Patti starts to search for the girl’s mother and gives the girl a new home for an uncertain period of time. La Pivellina is a film about a cosmos of outcasts in present- day Italy: a moving tale of courage and discrimination, of loss and togetherness, a look behind the corrugated-iron fence of a gated community.
Since 1996 Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel are working together in photography, theatre, and movie projects. In 2002 they founded their own film production company Vento Film to produce their films independently. They won several awards for their documentaries, including the Wolfgang Staudte Award at the Berlinale for Babooska. In 2007 they were honored with the “Österreichischen Förderungspreis für Filmkunst” and in 2013 with the “Österreichischen Kunstpreis für Filmkunst”.
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Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel
Written by Tizza Covi / Photography Rainer Frimmel / Editing Tizza Covi / Starring Tairo Caroli, Arthur Robin, Wendy Weber / Produced by Rainer Frimmel
Austria/Italy, 2016 – 90’
V.O.
The young lion tamer Tairo is unhappy with his life. He uses the loss of his good luck charm as an excuse to travel across Italy looking for Arthur Robin, a former Mr Universe, who gave it to him a long time ago. Mr. Universo is a movie guided by rational and irrational forces.
Since 1996 Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel are working together in photography, theatre, and movie projects. In 2002 they founded their own film production company Vento Film to produce their films independently. They won several awards for their documentaries, including the Wolfgang Staudte Award at the Berlinale for Babooska. In 2007 they were honored with the “Österreichischen Förderungspreis für Filmkunst” and in 2013 with the “Österreichischen Kunstpreis für Filmkunst”.
by CONSTANZE RUHM
Written byConstanze Ruhm / Editing Constanze Ruhm
Austria 1999 / 2’30’’
In a scene from Godard’s Nouvelle Vague the camera moves along the façade of a night-illuminated villa, pauses briefly at its corner, and then mirrors its way back again to the starting point. Constanze Ruhm’s recent video, “Travelling,” adopts precisely this symptomatic movement taken from Nouvelle Vague to conceptually present its function within a virtual space.
Constanze Ruhm lives between Vienna and Berlin and works as filmmaker, artist, author and curator. Her films and installations investigate the relation of cinema, new media and the archive,
often with an emphasis on the subjects of casting and rehearsal.
They focus on issues of representation, performativity and their reciprocal relation to feminist historiography. Her works appear on cinema screens as well as in exhibitions, and focus –always through a feminist optics – on film history and female film characters suspended between fiction and reality, documentation and fantasma.
by CONSTANZE RUHM
Sceneggiatura Constanze Ruhm / Montaggio Hannes Böck e Constanze Ruhm / Fotografia Hannes Boeck / Musica Gael Segalen
Austria, Italy, France 2019 / 72′
V.O. sub. ITA
Gli appunti di Anna Azzori / Uno specchio che viaggia nel tempo originally emerges from the LIVING ARCHIVE project initiated by Stefanie Schulte Strathaus in 2012, which invited filmmakers, artists, curators, theorists and other cultural producers to investigate and work with the archive of the Berlin-based Arsenal Cinema that contains more than 8000 films in order to develop contemporary projects and productions relating to that archive. This archive also holds a 16 mm copy of a film called ANNA by Italian Underground director Alberto Grifi and actor Massimo Sarchielli, which became the starting point and reference film for Gli appunti di Anna Azzori. The film tells the story of a female film character suspended between reality and fiction, and literally represents “uno specchio che viaggia nel tempo”: a mirror that travels through time (a phrase from a poem by Alberto Grifi). At the same time, it is dedicated to its heroine: being based on Anna’s (fictitious) notes it can be considered both – an imaginary portrait as well as a feminist reply to its template, Grifi’s and Sarchielli’s film.
Constanze Ruhm lives between Vienna and Berlin and works as filmmaker, artist, author and curator. Her films and installations investigate the relation of cinema, new media and the archive,
often with an emphasis on the subjects of casting and rehearsal.
They focus on issues of representation, performativity and their reciprocal relation to feminist historiography. Her works appear on cinema screens as well as in exhibitions, and focus –always through a feminist optics – on film history and female film characters suspended between fiction and reality, documentation and fantasma.