Alice Rohrwacher

Rural Italy shot on grainy film as though the footage were itself recovered. Rohrwacher mixes neorealist labour with open miracle — a saint, a resurrection, a man who does not age — and refuses to mark where one ends. Exploitation is the constant; transcendence is offered without irony.

Signature

• 16mm and Super 16, Academy ratio; the image looks unearthed.
• Peasant and underclass labour depicted concretely, not picturesquely.
• Folk-tale logic admitted into realist frames with no explanation.
• Non-professional casts alongside regulars.

Films here also carry Found Family, Class Warfare, Nostalgia & Longing, Loneliness & Isolation, Survival.