“Please don’t do anything to my wrinkles, it took me so long to earn them,” said Anna Magnani, the Italian actress. The time is propitious for us to become what we are not, to change our face and become what we want to be. This led me to talk with a few women about the idea of femininity, sexuality, acceptance of one’s own body, acceptance of changes to the body as a result of pregnancy, sickness, and age. Different generations, different ideas, different ways of accepting; an identical terror of the passage of time that is inscribed into the body. “It is terrible to see, but if you look at yourself a couple of times in the mirror, you start to accept yourself, you have to.” There was no false compassion, no false empathy. Every act has a consequence, every sentence has some meaning. My role was to be an attentive listener and observer. I think that our thoughts should find a way out, they need to be heard. There are fragments of our conversations in this work.
production: KONTEJNER (DIY_ARTLAB)
Hrvoslava Brkušić (HR)
Hrvoslava Brkušić graduated in Film and Television Editing from the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb and holds a Master’s degree from the Department of New Media at the Academy of Fine Arts. In her artistic practice, she works across sound installations, live performance, film and video. She has presented her work at various events and festivals, including Izlog suvremenog zvuka, the Music Biennale Zagreb, and the 25 FPS Festival in Croatia, as well as internationally in Italy, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Spain, Poland, Lithuania, Austria, and elsewhere. She has edited a number of films screened at festivals such as the International Film Festival Rotterdam, IDFA Amsterdam, CPH:DOX, Sarajevo Film Festival, 25 FPS, the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, and many others. Through her work on film education projects in Senegal, Burkina Faso and Palestine, she has engaged with questions of access, representation, and erased narratives in local film archives, which has led her towards artistic research into the colonial gaze and archival presence. As an educator, she teaches at the Restart Documentary Film School and the Academy of Fine Arts, and is part of the team running the film laboratory Klubvizija in Zagreb.
