Battlefield
Moving between archival images and the present, the film revisits the feminist movements of the 1960s and 1970s, uncovering a history of the female body as a space of resistance, control and emancipation.
Intimate, other, virginal, objectified, ethereal, fragmented: the female body mirrors a battlefield for all women that, in the 1960’s and 1970’s, claimed its re-appropriation. “Battlefield” is a tribute to all second-wave feminist movements; through fragments of daily life and social battles, it reconstructs those key moments in our recent history. Sound and images give voice to the archives of Archivio Audiovisivo del Movimento Operaio e Democratico, in an imaginary journey between different representations of femininity of that time. Editing and music lead the viewer into an evocative place, in between memory and the present. In this sense, “Battlefield” is a passage through sound, visual and emotional spaces.
The film will be screened together with The Woman’s Greatest Value is Her Silence.
Silvia Biagioni
Silvia Biagioni is a filmmaker and editor based between London and Milan. She has specialised in documentaries and archive films, found footage, participatory projects and film essays and has worked on films for the BBC, Vice, ITV and Channel 4 – amongst others.
Reżyseria: Silvia Biagioni
