MARIANGELA CICCARELLO
Visual artist and Filmmaker
CALYPSO
HD video and Super 8mm film
Color and Black & White
Neapolitan, Italian
47 minutes
2021
Angela and Paola are preparing a play loosely based on The Odyssey. Angela assumes the role of Ulysses and Paola that of his lover who has summoned him from the dead for a final meeting. When the play intersects with the young women’s lives a rupture occurs. Transported, they reinvent themselves through new identities and the open space of the rehearsal stage. Calypso navigates between individual desire and collective unconscious, reclaiming mythology from its normative foundations.
Screenings:
Torino Film Festival
Ischia Film Festival, Italy
Salina Doc Fest, Italy
Rockaway Film Festival, US
Cinema Flux, Palazzo Grassi - Venice, Italy
Written, filmed and edited by Mariangela Ciccarello
Produced by Philip Cartelli
With: Angela Dionisia Severino, Paola Maria Cacace
& Eleonora Lollo
Sound Design and Mix: Maile Costa Colbert
Screenplay: Mariangela Ciccarello & Philip Cartelli
Theater Script: Mariangela Ciccarello & Thomas Tzalapatis
This project has been part of Feature Expanded – European Art Film Strategies (Schermo dell'Arte, Firenze/HOME, Manchester).
This project is made possible, in part, with funds from the Media Arts Assistance Fund, a regrant partnership of the New York State Council on the Arts Electronic Media and Film Program and Wave Farm.