Re-IMMAGINE DE ROMA (BLACK)

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RE-IMMAGINE DI ROMA Manuscript

8 x 11 cm, 22 pages

2023

Imagine de Roma is a personal spatial exploration of Rome guided by Ludovico Quaroni’s 1984 photobook. I treated the book as a set of instructions, extracting recurring themes—stairs, crossings, trees,markets, public squares, façades, and sculptures—to direct my movement, observation, and photography through the city.

The photographs were shot in black and white on 35mm film with a half-frame camera. I rearranged them into handwritten manuscripts that function as preliminary film sequences and diagrams of spatial movement. These manuscripts were then translated into a film composed entirely of still images, where rhythm and movement emerge through framing, repetition, and pause.

The film juxtaposes Quaroni’s 1984 critique of Rome with my own experience of the city in 2024. Montage becomes both method and concept: a way of constructing the film and a way of reading Rome itself—as a city continually assembled from overlapping histories, monumental forms, fleeting light, and ordinary life.

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^{The same confusion of languages and gestures that strikes us in Rome’s disorderly crowds can also be found in its urban landscape. Ancient monuments ( Porta Maggiore on the left ) and Baroque churches ( Il Gesù on the right) are hemmed in by late-nineteenth-century buildings or active construction sites, bound together by the countless wires of trams and trolleybuses, and besieged by vehicles barely able to move, overcrowded with sweaty, irritated people, shut up in their own troubles yet always ready to swear.}

^{Despite the invasion of motor vehicles, in the “village” of Rome it is still easy to find yourself in the midst of a crowd of pedestrians, overwhelming you with its somewhat untidy, somewhat plump presence—loud and carefree in a distinctly Mediterranean way. The crowd is often made up of rather unattractive people, yet they are always ready to look closely, amid the sensuality of the Roman air, at the exceptions to this rule.} (Via Frattina and Porta Portese)

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