
Marion Baruch and the house on the hill
Francesca Molteni
Italy, 2022, 21′
Original language: Italian
Subtitles: English
Original language: Italian
Subtitles: English
SYNOPSIS
Who is Marion Baruch?
She is a vagabond, a cosmopolitan who traversed Europe in the darkest moments between the wars and in the adventurous ones of reconstruction and then youth uprisings.
In this documentary, the artist interrogates herself and investigates her own memory in an interview that briefly traces some significant moments in her life and career.
The narrative traverses the spaces of a warehouse where some works from the past coexist with drafts of works in development. Through an alternating montage, art and architecture dialogue through the figures of Marion Baruch and architect Carlo Moretti, who narrate the construction of the splendid house built during the 1960s in Gallarate, not far from Milan. The story moves from the Stalinist period in Romania to studies in Fine Arts in Israel, from the first exhibitions to Paris, and then to Milan, from the reuse of fabric scraps, to Dress – Container, to the approach to design, to the most recent provocations on the meaning of artistic production.
CREDITS
Director Francesca Molteni
Photography Nicolò Amedeo, Davide Fois
Editing Nicolò Amedeo
Producer Gaia Maritano
Narrator Nicolò Amedeo
Translations Annalisa Di Liddo
Produced by Muse factory of Projects
Supported by Italian Cultural Institute in Haifa and Tel Aviv
Curated by Fulvio Irace
With Marion Baruch, Carlo Moretti