traces / tracce
Traces/Tracce is a short video piece developed for “Tutto in mondo in una rete, donne in primo piano tra cultura e creatività”, a seminar/webinar organised by Laboratorio Immagine Donna in collaboration with the Comune di Firenze, which was screened on December 2023 both online and at Cinema La Compagnia in Firenze.
Responding to the theme of ‘violence’, and to the 10 minute time limit that was given us to discuss the topic for the event, we chose to use this limitation as a starting point with which to guide the direction the piece would take. There is anxiety, and urgency. A stream of consciousness that climaxes with realisation and satisfaction.
We discuss ‘contact’ – specifically the axiom “every contact leaves a trace” as a metaphor for the damage, and violence we have the potential to leave on each other, but also for the support and care that we can express. We also relate this idea to the undefined boundaries of collective working, where no one outcome belongs to any one person, but every single person’s presence is valued, felt, and acts as a contribution.
Visually it seeks to offer the voice of all of us as one, with our identities hidden, and our body language suggesting that any one of us could be the voice in the piece.
During the making of the piece, we were living between three different continents, and with little time and resources to create together, we used our phones to record ourselves and merged the footage.
You can find the full recording of the event here.
written, filmed, and produced by projektado collective for Laboratorio Immagine Donna
premiered in Florence, 18th December 2023, at Cinema La Compagnia
violence / contact / collectivity
for Laboratorio Immagine Donna
premiered in Florence, 18th December 2023, at Cinema La Compagnia
violence / contact / collectivity