Pia Epremian
Biography
(Chivasso, Turin, 1940), only woman filmmaker of the CCI, she spent time on the Turin art scene in the 1960s with her childhood friend and confederate Tonino De Bernardi. Her degree thesis on Proust formed the basis of her first film Proussade 1967, followed by other short and medium-length films, all in 8mm until 1971, when she stop making films. She then moved to Rome to concentrate on psychoanalysis, specialising in the treatment of children and teenagers.
Known For & Full Filmography5 Titles
Movie - 1970, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A series of migrants who at times narrate and impersonate shards of myths, among them the Great Goddess, the Virgin of Bach’s Magnificat, the Sulamite of Stockhausen’s Song of Solomon (“I am black but comely”), tales by Herodotus, Kafka, Villon (as set to music by Ezra Pound). Third part of the Flower of Eryngium cycle.
Movie - 1968, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
The construction of the film is very simple. Most of the time we see faces in close-up. Three pairs of faces, usually, on three different levels of superimpositions. At first, the faces are very theatrical, made-up. It's not clear whether they are men or women. They move only slightly. They are, indeed, godlike. As the film progresses, very unnoticeably, these faces begin to gain more life and masculine and feminine qualities. At the end of the film, after three hours, the faces are very real, and very human, and sexes and ages are very clearly defined: men, women, children.
Movie - 1970, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Dissolvimento shows two women in domestic interiors who perform two different actions, edited one after the other. In the first, the painter Gigliola Carretti is engaged in an action with a series of sexually explicit props, making the activity resemble the brushing of teeth; in the second, the director herself is seen from behind, seated on a toilet. The film ends with the almost abstract view of cascades of the fountains of Turin.
Movie - 1967, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Short made for double parallel projections, for which Allen Ginsberg said that it's his favorite underground European film, debut from the director, cheeky hommage to B-movies.
Movie - 1968, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.