CORPO DI REATO (Terms and Conditions #01)

In the organizer's words:

On September 23 and 24, the Harun Farocki Institute presents a two-part film program as part of the research project Terms and Conditions: The Legal Form of Images, which is dedicated to the legal matrix of artistic practice and cultural production. The focus is on feminist film practices that criticize violence against marginalized subjects and develop formal, narrative strategies to avoid new mechanisms of oppression.

Program

Mon 23.9., 20h, guest: Annamaria Licciardello (curator, historian, archivist), moderator: Clio Nicastro
CORPO DI REATO Body of Crime Colletiva (Marta Basso, Sara Cecconi, Carlotta Cosmai, Alice Malingri) Italy 2024 ital. OmeU 10'
The short film CORPO DI REATO (Body of Crime) by the Italian feminist collective "Collettiva" (Marta Basso, Sara Cecconi, Carlotta Cosmai and Alice Malingri) examines the censorship of A.A.A. Offresi (1981), a film about sex work by feminist filmmakers Loredana Rotondo, Paola De Martis, Annabella Miscuglio, Rony Daopulo, Mariagrazia Belmonti and Anna Carini. On March 12, 1981, RAI presenter Marina Morgan announced that A.A.A. Offresi would not be broadcast, "at the formal request of the President of the Parliamentary Supervisory Commission". CORPO DI REATO re-enacts the story and takes fictional revenge: a group of activists in colorful balaclavas storm the studio to read out the script of the censored film. The screening is followed by a discussion about the films A.A.A. Offresi and Un processo per Stupro (A Trial for Rape, 1979).