Veronetta Contemporanea Festival: The Right of Resistance/Existence: Reflections and Visions from the Films of Anna Marziano, June 17, Verona, Italy
On 17 June at 9.15 pm, the Veronetta Contemporanea Festival, in collaboration with the Harun Farocki Institut, will present a cinematic evening exploring the poetics and politics of resistance, existence, and relationality through the films of Anna Marziano, a HaFI residency recipient in 2024. The event includes a full screening of Farsi seme and selected excerpts from Al largo and Schiuma di mondi.
“To Resist” and “to Exist” share the same Latin root, stemming from the verb sistere: “to come forth, to appear, to stand”. If to exist means to be alive — that is, to manifest oneself on the stage of the world — the prefix “re-” indicates the repetition of the action. To resist, then, expresses a stubborn desire to remain alive, to endure, and to emerge once again into the world.
Anna Marziano’s films give voice to this desire, exploring the strength found in resisting pain and vulnerability: from the illness that marks the body to the fog enveloping a small island in the Venetian lagoon, increasingly threatened by the risk of disappearing beneath the water. (Re)existence thus reveals itself as the source of a collective, political desire — never egocentric. To appear, to come forth, to continue existing all imply, from their very etymology, the indispensable presence of the other and of a place that becomes a space for encounter and community. Relationship — with others and with the world — is a fundamental condition for the existence of any form of life.
Starting from the screening of Farsi seme and selected excerpts from Al largo and Marziano’s new work-in-progress Schiuma di mondi, the director will engage in dialogue with the event’s guests, exploring the many contemporary forms of (re)existence. Between care and justice, bodies and desires, illness and birth, we will reflect together on what it means to resist and exist in our time.
The Right of Resistance/Existence: Reflections and Visions from the Films of Anna Marziano
Tuesday, June 17, 9:15 PM
Screening and discussion
With: Anna Marziano (Director), Clio Nicastro (Bard College Berlin / Harun Farocki Institut), Gianluca Solla (University of Verona) and Natascia Tosel (University of Verona)
Location: Veronetta Contemporanea Festival 2025, Verona, Italy
In collaboration with the Harun Farocki Institut