Film Negativo / Positivo

Camera-less film collage composed of layers of 16mm erotic films from the ’20s, ’40s and ’70s, interspersed with nature documentaries. This abstraction combines both the black and white positive film stock and its negative counterpart onto the same film base. The filmmaker uses emulsion lifting and other collage techniques to remediate women’s bodies, dislodged from their original erotic context and torn from their male co-protagonists. The female body slowly merges with those of insects and plants. (Federica Foglia)