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Mo Scarpelli is an Italian-American director and cinematographer of mostly-non-fiction cinema. Her films have centered on the rupture of identity by rapidly changing landscapes, and the use of myth and destiny in order to survive. Mo's films have been exhibited at the Berlinale, IDFA, Visions du Réel, Film Society of Lincoln Center, SXSW, and ...
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CONSULTING. I like to help where people want it. I provide...
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MO SCARPELLI. films. EL FATHER PLAYS HIMSELF; ANBESSA; I...
- Faith
FAITH Kenya, USA TRT 75 min in production. Two dozen girls...
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dir. by Mo Scarpelli. 5-part video installation | 2020 |...
- El Hara
13 min. French. HD video, Stereo, color. 2017. For over 700...
- Anbessa
Amharic. HD video, 5.1 stereo, color. 2019. A boy caught...
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13 min. French. HD video, Stereo, color. 2017. For over 700 years, thousands of Jews lived in El Hara of Tunis. Albert Memmi grew up here. As a Tunisian Jew, he struggled to find his place between the European colonizers and the Muslim colonized. Since then, the neighborhood’s Jewish residents have moved on, but Memmi's memories still dwell here.
Mo Scarpelli It seems Scarpelli takes every opportunity to exercise wonder as a director too, with an endless fascination for the worlds she encounters. Relationships between character and setting are intriguing – the spaces we occupy “give a visceral pressure or release on our emotions” Scarpelli says, and thus become deeply informative sources when discovering who people are and how ...
Apr 13, 2020 · Director Mo Scarpelli joins us on Close-Up Culture to talk about her first solo feature, Anbessa. The film follows an Ethiopian boy caught between the ancient and the new as he navigates modernisation on his own terms. By becoming a lion ( anbessa) he can fight back against the forces outside of his control. Q: You had been filming projects in ...
Amharic. HD video, 5.1 stereo, color. 2019. A boy caught between the ancient and the new navigates modernization on his own terms. By becoming a lion ( anbessa) he can fight back against the forces outside of his control. Camera & Direction by Mo Scarpelli. Produced by Caitlin Mae Burke, Mo Scarpelli. Edited by Nico Leunen, Thomas Pooters.
Mo Scarpelli, Southern New Hampshire University Fellow, is a director and cinematographer of non-fiction cinema. Her feature-length films include Anbessa (Berlinale International Film Festival Crystal Bear and Glashütte Documentary Prize nominee), El Father Plays Himself (Visions du Réel Special Mention for Best International Film), and Frame by Frame (SXSW 2015).
Mo Scarpelli is an Italian-American director and cinematographer of non-fiction cinema. Her first solo-directed documentary feature, ANBESSA, premiered at the 69th Berlinale where it was nominated for the Glashütte Documentary Award.
