Nina Maroccolo

Anne Frank

“I blossomed as a woman at Prinsengracht 263 on 4 August 1944, when the Dutch Nazi police captured me shamelessly alive among the unmade beds.
My understanding of the farewell was exemplary: indulgent in the exact centre. Once past the nocturnal curve, the motivations of a new existence restored me to the world. History called. Could I fail to respond? I incorporated the infinitesimal part that was my lot and then sank with it amid monumental silences that never made the news and through which language was unlearned.”

All footage has been taken in Berlin (the city, the artist’s studio and the ex-concentration camp Sachsenhausen), except for the broken glass, which is in a hospital in the Netherlands, where the artist’s mother spent the last days of her life.

The video is part of the Shoah Film Collection – The d/i/light Memorial.

title: Anne Frank
technique: Experimental video and animation
length: 6’20”
year: 2014
music: “Anne Frank” by Shiri Malckin
sound design: Shiri Malckin
text: excerpt from “Annelies Marie Frank” by Nina Maroccolo, published by Edizioni Empirìa, Rome, Italy
voice: Nina Maroccolo
video concept, camera, animation, effects and montage: Maria Korporal

B.A. Film Festival 2017 – nuova sezione di videoarte

Il B.A. Film Festival è una manifestazione cinematografica nata nel 2003 con lo scopo di valorizzare le produzioni italiane di qualità – con particolare attenzione alle diverse professionalità che operano nel campo dell’audiovisivo – e di diffondere la cultura cinematografica attraverso proiezioni e laboratori per gli studenti (Made in Italy – Scuole), e l’incontro ravvicinato tra grandi personalità del cinema e il pubblico.

Anne Frank © Maria Korporal

Maria Korporal partecipa con il suo video Anne Frank, fatto in collaborazione con Nina Maroccolo (testo e voce) e Shiri Malckin (musica e sound design).

SEZIONI
– Videoarte: presentazione di opere di autori internazionali (nuova sezione)
– Effetto Cinema: documentari e video sul “fare cinema”
– Giornate del cinema d’animazione: proiezioni e ospiti

MIBArt Multimedia Festival
Proiezioni della selezione di opere di videoarte a cura di Piero Deggiovanni

VIDEO ARTISTI MIBArt 2017
Amaducci Alessandro, Concert for Shadows 11-14
APOTROPIA / Antonella Mignone + Cristiano Panepuccia, The Kiss
Bellantoni Elena, The Struggle of Power, the fox and the wolf
Bonaventura Sara, DemonIO
Casali Lorenzo + Roubini Micol, Outerdark
Casdia Rita, Stangliro
Cillo Enzo, Out of the Night
Basmati / Audray Coïaniz + Saul Saguatti, Transitcity n.3 Aemilia
Con.Tatto / Francesca Leoni + Davide Mastrangelo, Androgynous
De Gennaro Silvia, Travel Notebook: Praga
Di Sopra Elisabetta, Dust Grains
Hadley Christina G., Louisianna
Imhoff Igor, Neon
Insana Salvatore, Access to Eden
Korporal Maria, Anne Frank
Lolli Francesca, Om Mani Padme Hum
Lunardi Marcantonio, The Choir
Manca Eleonora, Provvisorio/Interim
Matarazzo Antonello, Happy ENDINGS
Mortelliti Rocco, Oggetto volante non identificato
movimentomilc, Méduses
Passarella Fabrizio, Eurostalgia
Pezone Ilaria, 1510 Sogno su carta con video
Rizzo Sathyan, BETHEREALYOU
Scacchioli Fabio + Vincenzo Core, Scherzo
Terlizzi Cosimo, La benedizione degli animali
Torre Danilo, Don’t Loose Your Head
Venturelli Devis, Pneumotion
Vrizzi Debora, Family Portrait

Venerdì 17 Marzo ore 16:00
MIBArt Multimedia Festival
Masterclass Piero Deggiovanni (Accademia Belle Arti Bologna) Teoria critica dell’ibridazione audiovisiva

da Lunedì 20 a Sabato 25 Marzo ore 12
MIBArt Multimedia Festival
Proiezioni della selezione di opere di videoarte a cura di Piero Deggiovanni

link programma completo festival:
http://www.baff.it/programma-2017/

•••> vedi anche il sito del Vertov Project

Anne Frank in Milan

“Anne Frank”, a video by Maria Korporal with music by Shiri Malckin and text/voice by Nina Maroccolo, has been selected for the group show “IL GIORNO DELLA MEMORIA”, January 27 to February 10, 2017.

Opening: Friday January 27, 2017, at 18.00
Associazione Circuiti Dinamici
Via Giovanola 19-20 – Milano, Italy

Artists: Cristian Aloi Aluà, Serenella Angeloni Cortesi, Anna Argentino e Giovanni Annese, Amalia Francesca Annese, Alberto Balletti, Nicola Bertoglio, Mirta Caccaro, Silvia Calvi, Silvana Cammi, Magda Chiarelli, Maria Korporal, Francesco Lasalandra, Claudio Lepri, Vanna Mazzei, Vetulia Mele, Luca Migliore, Donatella Sarchini, Massimo Scarficcia, Ivan Sghirinzetti, Claudio Stefanoni, Marco Trentin, Elisa Zadi, Sara Zaghetto, Paola Zorzi.
Curator: Antonia Guglielmo.

Specchiatura

Specchiatura (In the Mirror) • a video by Maria Korporal
on a poem by Faraòn Meteosès

with dancer Alessandro Pintus – NON COMPANY – www.alessandropintus.com

cast: Alessandro Pintus – butoh dance
recitative: Nina Maroccolo, Faraòn Meteosès
text: Faraòn Meteosès (Stefano Amorese)
music: Daniele Venturi – www.danieleventuri.com – with Alessandro Stradaioli on contrabass
direction, camera, images, effects and montage: Maria Korporal

The video has been published on a DVD as part of the project “Largo Sguardo”.
> more information.

Nieuwe presentatie:
• 30-31 maart 2023: Arte-fatti contemporanei / BILtrepuntozero, Bologna in Lettere

 

 

> see also storyboard of the video

The Pelican of the Wilderness

title: The Pelican of the Wilderness
technique: Experimental video and animation
length: 7’06”
year: 2015
poem: “Scheletri nottambuli” by Mario Maroccolo, from the book “Annelies Marie Frank” by Nina Maroccolo, published by Edizioni Empirìa, Rome, Italy
English translation of the poem: “Nocturnal skeletons” by Emiliano Pietrini
voice: Nina Maroccolo
music: “Memoria II” (excerpt) and “Elegy” by Michael J. Stewart
sound mix: Emiliano Pietrini
video concept, camera, animation, effects and montage: Maria Korporal

A crucial scene in the video is a pelican biting itself in the chest to save his children with his own blood. It is an image of great allegorical significance in antiquity and in Christianity, usually representing the paternal or maternal love, the act of sacrifice oneself to save one’s own children. In alchemical iconography the image of the pelican is a metaphor for the unselfish aspiration to the ascent towards purification, for the absolute generosity.
The title “The pelican of the wilderness” refers to a quote from the Bible: “I am like a pelican of the wilderness …” (Psalm 101.7). The quote is also present in the book “Annelies Marie Frank,” from which was taken the poem “Nocturnal skeletons” by Mario Maroccolo, father of the author Nina Maroccolo, who reads the text in the final scene of the video.
The video has been presented at the festival “Bologna in lettere“, May 16, 2015, in an extended form with a performance by Nina Maroccolo and Maria Korporal.

 

Slideshow of the performance:

 

Still images from the video: