Cinque lire di stelle (Five Lire Worth of Stars) — 2026
The work emerges from a collaboration with ULIT, a collective—of which the artist is a member of—engaged in research and self-education on transformative justice and conflict facilitation. The film work brings together documentation and filmic experimentation to convey the practices, questions, and attempts of a group reflecting on how to build responsible communities capable of resisting punitive culture.
The video makes visible a work that is often a quiet and daily one, built on practices of listening, mediation, and small gestures capable of redefining relationships. A tuning fork runs through the work as both symbolic and sonic device: an instrument for “bringing voices into tune,” but also a metaphor for the effort required to build trust and sustain spaces able to hold vulnerability, conflict, and error.
work realised in collaboration with the members of ULIT—Un Limone In Tasca: Valentina Calderone, Elisa Favaretto, Marco Frigerio, Valeria Manna, Giusi Palomba, Maria Alessandra Panzera, Roberta Romanelli, Noemi Santarella, Camilla Siliotti, Grazia Stella, Federica Valerio, Valentina
DOP: Maria Chiara Morolli
Camera operator: Michelangelo Maraviglia
Sound recordists: Federica Paccotti, Carolina Stichter
Scenography production: Cristina Lavosi, Jonas Dehnen
Film equipment: Moovie Blackandlight S.r.l.
Editing: Benedetta Marchiori
Music & Sound design: Vittorio Giampietro
Color grading: Marco Minghi
Subtitles supervision: Hattie Wade
Text excerpts from: ‘I Hope We Choose Love’, Kai Cheng Thom and ‘A Estética do Oprimido’, Augusto Boal
Commissioned and produced by Almanac, Torino (IT)
Supported by MiC and SIAE, as part of ‘Per Chi Crea’ programme
Co-funded by Mondriaan Fund and Stroom Den Haag (NL)
Research support by CASTRO, Roma (IT)
Scenography produced during the Off the Grid residency at Cas-co Leuven (with drawings by Kateryna Berezina, Valentina Bianchi, Marília Breite, Elke De Neve, Tine Deboelpaep, Diane Fleury, Jimena Garcia Vazquez, and Cristina Lavosi)
Special thanks to: Elisabetta Baldin, Angelica Bollettinari, Valentino Russo, Adele Dipasquale