Il Cittadino
Single screen digital video, 8 mins 46 secs, 2007.

In 'Il Cittadino', an actor filmed in Friuli Venezia Giulia in the north east of Italy, performs a series of speeches to camera. Desolate locations, an atmospheric soundtrack and sporadic uncanny camera perspectives frame her self-conscious style of delivery. Speaking in English with an Italian accent, the story she weaves combines facts about this remote area of Europe with anecdotes about the film's director. The narrative meanders almost inappropriately from the humorously confessional to the directly political, including references to ski resorts, Irish themed pubs and the CIA.

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Credits:
Actor: Giulia Innocenti
Cameraperson: Jim Leishman
© Michelle Deignan 2007