Description
Russian premiere
POLYPHEM is the second chapter in a series of short experimental landscape films that reinterpret the stages of the journey of Homer‘s Odyssey and set them in the context of the anthropocene. Filmed in the only active bauxite tailings pond in Germany, POLYPHEM reimagines the myth of Polyphemus from Homer’s Odyssey within a contemporary landscape scarred by red mud, industrial aluminium waste.
About the director:
Ilaria Di Carlo
Italian visual artist and filmmaker based in Berlin. She studied at Central Saint Martins College of Art in London and at the Fine Arts Academy in Rome. She subsequently studied filmmaking at the SAE Institute of Berlin. Her visually driven films explore the role of myth and poetry as a reflection on contemporary life, while focusing on the themes of journey and identity in relation to spaces, landscapes, and architecture. Her films have been screened at numerous international film festivals including Torino Film Festival, Festival of New Cinema Montreal, and Cork Film Festival, receiving multiple awards such as Best Short Film at Torino Film Festival and the Barbara Aronofsky Latham Award at the Ann Arbor Film Festival. Her work has been presented in various museums, exhibitions, and institutions such as the National Gallery of Art in Washington, Museum of Contemporary Art in Lisbon, Gallery of Modern Art in Rome and Fundación Proa Buenos Aires among others.