Isabel Pagliai
Orfeo - Film - 15min - 2016
presented as part of the exhibition Panorama 18
“When I am alone, the light of day is only the loss of a dwelling place. It is intimacy with the outside which has no location and affords no rest. Coming here makes the one who comes belong to dispersal, to the fissure where the exterior is the intrusion that stifles, but is also nakedness, the chill of the enclosure that leaves one utterly exposed. Here the only space is its vertiginous separation. Here fascination reigns.” Maurice Blanchot, The Space of Literature
Isabel Pagliai
Born in 1988 in Saint-Julien-en-Genevois. Lives and works in Paris.
After training in contemporary dance, Isabel Pagliai studied literature, art history and cinema at university in Paris. She graduated from Le Fresnoy, National Studio of Contemporary Arts.
Her cinematographic work, which combines a fictional approach with documentary filming, revolves around the themes of childhood and language.
Her films Isabella Morra, Orfeo and Tender have been screened at numerous festivals - International Film Festival Rotterdam, New Directors/New Films, Viennale, Cinéma du Réel... - and prestigious venues - Villa Medici, Palais de Tokyo, MAMCO, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, ICA Institute of Contemporary Arts... -
She has won several awards for Isabella Morra (2015) and Tendre (2020).
Production
Acknowledgments
Françoise and René Pagliai, the sociocultural association « Au 7 », families and children of the city « la SIGEM » of Gaillard. Mathias Bouffier, Damien Manivel, Cyril Teste, Eric Prigent, Daniel Dobbels, the team of the shooting and all the team of Fresnoy.
