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graduato

filmmaking | photography | anthropology

Letter to Lidia (work in progress)

Letter to Lidia, is an audiovisual project in the form of a letter addressed to a woman, reflecting on memory, landscape, and transformation, through digital archives from the Abruzzo region, in central Italy.

Combining archival materials with an experimental and poetic approach, the project reflects on the transformations and continuities that have shaped the bond between humans and environment in mountain areas, which faced profound ecological and social change.

Rather than simply documenting, Letter to Lidia seeks to evoke — to convey the intimate resonance between people and their surroundings, while blurring the boundaries between reality, imagination, and collective memory. The project reinterprets archival images and sounds to question evolving practices and ways of life, and the impact of transformation on those who inhabit these landscapes, opening a reflection on the spaces of the masculine and the feminine, from a feminine perspective.