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.