We are all relatively powerless in front of the camera but this is specially true if you happen to be dead. All sorts of chroniclers (historians, biographers, filmmakers) feel perfectly free to sort throughh our most intimate thoughts and recollections --in diaries, correspondence, photos, objects, etc-- and pop them up on the screen; sometimes lovingly, sometimes cruelly, sometimes right, sometimes wrong. In any case there´s no opportunity for rebuttal.
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Rita Atria is the daughter of Vito Atria, one of the Sicilian mafia capos, murdered in 1985, and the sister of Nicola Atria, murdered in 1991. At a very young age Rita… -
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“Portal of Peace” is about a ritual in a cemetary in Havana: In countries that have no tradition of cremation, cemetaries fill up rapidly. In order to make… -
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A story of the Russian poet Maksimillian Voloshin and his house in Koktebel in the Crimea, which was a shelter for young poets and artist in the years preceding the 1917…