DAKHLAVISION profile:
DAKHLAVISION, the brainchild of film-maker Rossella Piccinno, is a project engaged in the realization of audiovisual productions.
Dakhlavision proposes the vision as a meeting forum and as a means to foster mutual understanding between people with diverse experiences of the world. It is an alternative point of view in which individual stories and personal experiences are interwoven through cooperation.
Dakhlavision already involves a group of individuals engaged in a variety of projects.
About Rossella Piccinno:
Biography:
Born 1978, Rossella Piccinno studied Documentary and Experimental Cinematography at the DAMS, Bologna University, graduating in 2004 with distinction. In her thesis on Carmelo Bene’s “Nostra Signora dei Turchi” she was able to combine a passion for the cinema with a longstanding enthusiasm for, and involvement in, the theatre. Further study at the Palazzina, Imola, gave her a postgraduate qualification in video making. This led to her first professional experience, in animation, working for Achtoons. In 2005 she began her career as director with the short “Interno Sei”, soon going on to produce and direct, in collaboration with the Italian Red Cross, the documentary “Mauritania: Ancient Libraries in the Desert”, which has been received with critical acclaim at a number of national and international film festivals. In “Occhi negli occhi: memorie di viaggio” (“first prize as best travel documentary” to the Video Festival of Imperia) the author aims to convey the magic of the experience of the 14,000-kilometer 4×4 journey from the motorways of Europe to the heart of the desert, in an intimate and evocative cine-diary which invites the viewer to consider the way different cultures interact.
Rossella subsequently returned to her native Salento where she realizes “To my Darling”, a video-elegy in memory of the artists Norman mommens and Patience Gray, faced also themes arising from the lot of immigrants in her report “Voices of Native and Migrant Women” (Prize “Visions of Territory” 2007). Developing from this experience, a new project, currently in production, sounds the alarm at the plight of many live-in carers and home helps, poorly-paid immigrants working throughout Southern Italy with few rights and subject to exploitation and isolation.
Filmography:
Inteno sei - r.t.: 09’00’’, fiction, 2005
Mauritania: Ancient Libraries in the desert - r.t.: 53’00’’, documentary, 2006
Occhi negli occhi – recollections of a journey – r.t.: 08’20’’, documentary, 2007
Voices of Native and Migrant Women - r.t.: 13’39”, documentary, 2007
To my Darling - r.t.: 21’43’’, experimental, 2008
Like Yesterday - r.t.: 05’00’’, documentary, 2008
Hanna and Violka - r.t.: 56′00”, documentary, 2009
