Italian Filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher on the Sacred, Politics, Cultural Genocide
Lise Pedersen Italian director Alice Rohrwacher presented her latest short film on Tuesday at the Lumière Film Festival in Lyon, where she was guest of honor.The filmmaker was visibly moved as she took to the stage of the 100-year-old Comédie Odéon theater, where the 9-minute short she made with French artist JR, “Omelia Contadina” (“A Peasant Homily”), was screened.“It’s not really a film, it’s not art either – you could call it a cinematic action,” she explained about the short, which features two of JR’s signature giant cardboard cut-out figures being carried to their graves by a group of farmers as part of a kind of funeral rite, symbolizing the burial of traditional farming.