Torino Social Impact Art Award

THE ARTWORKS

CATERINA ERICA SHANTA

Talking About Visibility

Can a story that began far away, whose origin has been lost amidst crossed geographical boundaries, be staged in another theatre, where the streets and squares are inseparably connected with national history? To ponder this question, the artist has conducted a workshop on collective cinema in Torino, the city that was Italy’s first capital, working with refugees and people with a migratory past. Together, they have produced 11 short films that intertwine in a story rooted in the films loved by each of the participants during childhood. This cinema memories become a field of exchange and negotiation to question the imaginary that inscribes the places of our everyday coexistence.

LIRYC DELA CRUZ

Il Mio Filippino: Invisible Bodies, Neglected Movements

Il Mio Filippino: Invisible Bodies, Neglected Movements is based on the research and documentation of the “gestures of care and cleaning methods” of Filipino cleaning workers. It poses the question on whether and how we can decolonize the enslaved and overexploited body. Is it possible to unlearn the colonial legacies embedded in these gestures of slavery and exhaustion? Can we emancipate the enslaved body, and how?

MONIA BEN HAMOUDA

Adhan to Dora

Adhan to Dora is a film about the desire for language and about musical and melodic prejudice.
It aims to highlight how language can often be a form of misunderstanding rather than a vehicle of understanding. Criticising linguistics and inherited political and narrative structures, it encourages the viewer to confront their own prejudices by looking at the landscape as a chimerical trigger of a complex and inescapable socio-political reasoning.

MRZB

STILI DRAMA XLI-XLII: La Giostra di Lulu

STILI DRAMA XLI-XLII: La Giostra di Lulu, the second episode of a para-cinema project in progress, focuses on a distorted, suburban and schizophrenic underworld that evolves in opposition to a mechanical, lustrous and horrific city. The film fragment is an allegory of the work, seen as a spectacle or a conjuring trick. The video is shot entirely on the banks of the Stura River on the northern outskirts of Torino.