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Marina Spada
(Milan, 1957) earned a degree in Music History and graduated form the School of Dramatic Arts of Milan’s Piccolo Theatre. She has made commercials, worked in television and directed numerous documentaries and video portraits. Since 1993 she has worked as a teacher at the Milan Film School as well as a director and executive producer, including on Tecla Taidelli’s Fuori Vena (2004), presented at the Locarno and Sulmona film festivals, and Federico Bondi’s Mar Nero, screened in Official Competition at Locarno 2008. Her debut feature Forza Cani screened at the Bellaria Film Festival. As a Shadow, selected in Venice Days in 2006, went on to screen at other top international festivals, winning numerous prizes, including the critics’ prize for Best Director at the Montpellier and Toulouse film festivals; Best Actress at the Festival of Italian Cinema in Mons, Belgium and the Festival Nouvelle Air in France; and Best Director at Argentina’s Mar del Plata festival.
Poesia che mi guardi is a reflection on poetry and on how necessary it is. I love poetry and I love poets because they courageously give voice to what is usually silenced. Antonia Pozzi in particular struck me because her poetry is free, carnal, sincere. I was fascinated by this young woman who was forced to hide, behind bourgeois appearances, an intense passion that was not reconcilable with the difficulties and conventions of her time. Antonia Pozzi, alone because she was too far ahead of others to be understood, knew how to look boldly at the beauty and pain of this world and bear witness to herself. She committed suicide, as often happens with female poets, and was born and lived in Milan, like me.
Marina Spada
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