(AGENPARL) – Rome, 15 November 2024
(AGENPARL) – Fri 15 November 2024 REMEMBER ME OF YOU
a documentary film by Emanuela Learned
Production: Kipuka Film
Country of origin: Italy
Duration: 60′
Emanuela Learned’s documentary “Ricordati di me” will be presented today, November 15th at 4.00 pm at the University of Bologna as part of “La Cultura della Cura”, which received MIC funding for the story and the screenplay and has already won numerous awards in Italy and abroad, a film on Alzheimer’s disease that the director wanted to dedicate to her mother.
Present at the presentation together with the director, Rosanna Sferrazza, producer of the film, Alberto Bertoni, Professor of Contemporary Italian Literature at the University of Bologna and author of the book “Memories of Alzheimer’s” and Sabina Capellari, Professor of Neurology, Department of Biomedical and Neuromotor Sciences of the University of Bologna. The meeting is moderated by Marco Veglia, Professor of Italian Literature at the University of Bologna and Director of the Medical Humanities Study Center.
Elena was a beautiful and strong woman. He falls ill with Alzheimer’s and in a short time a thick fog descends on his past and his present, hiding everything. Her daughter Emanuela, who had a passionate but also conflictual relationship with Elena, tries to stay in contact with her mother, trying to stimulate and intercept her emotions that ended up who knows where.
“Through the story of Elena, my mother, I didn’t want to talk about Alzheimer’s from a clinical or sociological point of view. Rather, my intent, given the impossibility of establishing cognitive communication with her, who has been suffering from Alzheimer’s for ten years, was to try to “dig” emotionally into the memories of her life buried, for reasons still unknown to science, under a blanket of neurotoxic substances that progressively lead to neuronal death” declares Emanuela Learned.
Aware of the sensitivity of the topic, Emanuela instead of using a film crew chose to shoot the documentary with the aid of a smartphone, a device that her mother accepted without discomfort. This choice gives the film a deliberately “dirty”, almost improvised aesthetic, capable of reflecting the fragmentary and unpredictable nature of the disease, between changing moods, uncertain memories and lost glances.
Giving further visual depth to the documentary are the 8mm images shot by Emanuela’s father in the family’s golden years, which act as a nostalgic counterpoint to the narrative, as if to represent an “original” memory.
Emanuela Learnato, graduated in History and Criticism of Cinema at “La Sapienza” in Rome, began in 1990 as a freelance journalist, collaborating with film magazines and covering reviews for the Roman Summer. He publishes essays on psychoanalysis and cinema, organizes cultural events such as “Mammine dear” (1994) and writes texts on Almodóvar and independent cinema. Since 1995 she has been an author for RAI, Mediaset and La7, writing programs such as “Porta a Porta”, “Non è l’Arena” and various specials.
In 2024 she worked as an author and project manager for RAI UNO on the creation of the event dedicated to the 70 years of RAI Italian Radio and Television “La TV fa Settanta”. Also in 2024 he signed the special on Ustica for RAI TRE entitled “Ustica, a breach in the wall”. On May 25, 2024, “La nostra Raffaella” was broadcast on RAI UNO, the portrait documentary dedicated to Raffaella Carrà, who wrote and directed and is available on Rai Play.
He currently works as an author of the program “Lo Stato delle Cose” on RAI TRE and for two years he has held a television writing course (from the conception of the format to the writing of the texts) as part of the Screenwriting Course of the IULM University of Rome.
Rosanna Sferrazza is an author, comedian, director, radio presenter, satirical correspondent, pianist, musicologist and producer.
