Photo: Rosa Aiello: A Pressing Subject (2023), Still

Rosa Aiello’s film works encompass a range of styles from animation to documentary collage to cinematic narrative. She takes an experimental approach and gathers material from what is at hand, in her domestic space, in her relationships, on her habitually used streets. She is interested in observing structures, social constructs like the family, and the built world of architecture and city infrastructure. For DokfestForum, she has put together a selection of her experimental documentary works which deal with forms of human interaction: from attention to control, exchange to fantasy. Subjects include some suburbs of Alberta, gifts of fruit and vegetable crops from neighbours, a personal voice note, a moment at a wedding, and an intersection in Berlin.

Introduction: Julia Schleis, Curator Fridericianum

Screening: A Pressing Subject (2023), LOVE TEST: Cruising for a Bruising (2023) and other works (in English)

Subsequently: talk with the artist (in English)