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Paola Sangiovanni
graduated in Film History and Criticism, and worked for many years in Italian and international television and film production as an assistant director and continuity. In 1993 she made her directorial debut with the short film Ogni cosa al suo posto, which screened in numerous festivals, including Clermont-Ferrand, Arcipelago and Bellaria. She went on to direct and present at various festivals the video-art work Vocali (1994); the docu-fiction Senzapatria (1996); the short Voci (2001); Dietro l’orizzonte (2005), a special on Daniele Vicari’s film Event Horizon; the documentary Diario di un superamore (2005); the medium-length documentary Staffette (2006); Anis tra di noi (2007), the backstage of Marco S. Puccioni’s Shelter; and the documentary Girando Palermo (2007), a series of stories from the set of Andrea Porporati’s The Sweet and the Bitter. Ragazze – La vita trema is her first feature film.
Ragazze – La vita tremais for me above all a film on memory, how it is passed on and how it can become historical narrative. In making it I met many women and listened to many stories before choosing four main characters, whose stories date back to when I was little more than child. I listened to archive recordings and images. I tried to create an empathetic relationship with everything, which became a method, a kind of circular emotion, that which history generally cannot communicate. I believe this emotion is compelling, and the film strives to inspire audiences to actively participate, to experience a vivifying and present memory.
Paola Sangiovanni
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