BEST ITALIAN DOCUMENTARY
| TITLE | FUCK FEMINISTS,
voci femministe nel mondo della street art |
| COUNTRY | Italy |
| YEAR | 2023 |
| DIRECTOR | ERIKA SEGNI ALICE ROTIROTI |
| LENGHT | 60′ 00″ |
| FORMAT | Digital |
| SOUND | GUIDO DE GEITANO |
| EDITING | ERIKA SEGNI ALICE ROTIROTI |
| SCREENPLAY | ERIKA SEGNI ALICE ROTIROTI |
| PRODUCTION | ISTANT PROJECT, METONIMIE PRODUZIONI CINEMATOGRAFICHE |
“On March 8, 2013 in Rome, on the occasion of the World Women’s Day event, some activists, created on a suburban wall of the city, the inscription “FEMINISTS” . A few days later, next to it, appeared the term “fuck,” which deliberately changed its meaning. After a brief internal discussion, the activists decided NOT to intervene on the defacement, as it corroborated and underscored the terms of the protest itself, but created in front of it a new inscription that read “YOU ARE NOT ALONE.” Starting from this episode, from which the provocative and disturbing title takes its cue, the documentary questions and explores the capacity of art to convey important political messages, of struggle, of identity, and of reappropriation of spaces, through a unique and at the same time collective gaze, never binary, encompassing various gender identities and new forms of expression. Through the invaluable contribution of the experts, and by means of the biographical account and works of some of the most interesting and talented urban art artists on the international scene, the film, recounts, in multiple voices, a space and discipline that is constantly changing and evolving, opening up a stimulating and creative debate.
DIRECTOR
Alice Rotiroti
Erika Segni Alice Rotiroti is an author, director, screenwriter, photographer and writing teacher. In 2019 she received the FEDIC award as “Emerging Author”. In 2020 you won the Film Commission Sardinia tender with the screenplay of the feature film “The Last Line of Things” directed by director Enrico Pau currently in production. In 2021 she is the winner of the MIBACT selective contribution for the writing of the TV series “TRE”. As a director you wrote and directed the short film “[a-live]” in 2018 which investigates the relationship between art and suicide by placing art as a saving element, winner of several national and international festivals and was also highly appreciated in the circles of psychoanalysis; in 2020 you wrote and directed the short film “MEZZAGIORNATA” which was inspired by the events of the Seawatch and its captain Carola Rackete; and in 2023 she produces and directs the feature-length documentary “FUCK FEMINISTS-feminist voices in the world of street art”.
Also in 2023, “LA POÉSIE EST LÀ OÙ ON NE L’ATTEND PAS” was released, a collection of poetic texts and images taken in over 20 countries around the world. You have been part of numerous film festival juries and as a teacher you have taken part in writing workshops for cinema.
She graduated in psychology, she studied photography with Letizia Battaglia and photolanguage with Giudy Waiser as well as having attended the directing laboratory of the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome. You have previously worked in psychiatric residencies in close contact with mental distress which has become one of the central themes of your artistic research together with the struggle, the question of gender identity and the “feminine” question in all its forms.
