Dressed by fear
A film written and directed by Teresa Scotto di Vettimo,
interpreted by Laurent Borel actor and with the participation of the artist Riccarda Montenero.
A visitor comes to the photographic exhibition Inhabited by Fear. While looking at the images, he experiences a real hallucination to the point of believing that he himself is the object of a visit....
Duration: 7 min
Interpretation: Laurent Borel
Filming and lighting assistant: Maxime Bruyère
Sound design: Jean Pham
Photography of the set: Brigitte Cano
Teresa Scotto di Vettimo is a graduate architect in Italy. For some years now, she has been exploring other fields of expression and has trained as a director. She writes and directs short films and engaged documentaries.
SHORT FILM
"Fear never leaves us: as children or adults, we are constantly inhabited by it. Fear is a dark, deep and powerful feeling because of its capacity to shape subjectivities and even common feelings." RM
This state, a result of many causes, affects both cognitive processes and social representations. Whether it is the result of a threat to one's physical or psychological integrity, the consequence of a collective frenzy, or manipulation, linked to a particular subject, the hold of fear can produce segregative behaviours, violence, and conformist postures that are submissive to authority, says Denise Jodelet, a specialist in social representations. She continues: "This should not prevent us from looking into its potential for resistance and innovation of citizens (...). This requires strength of ideas, representations and imaginaries that give form and substance to alternative visions." 1
It is precisely this process that is at the heart of Riccardo Montenero's work: to create places of resistance through the strength of visual proposals. Places of resistance to the violence and rejection, recurrent subjects in her work, that "vulnerable" people might endure. By choosing them as models, Montenero makes the processes of violence they are confronted with visible, without ever putting them in a position of victims and to highlight their strength.
This work shows the body of an elderly person who, who through her gestures embodies the forms of fear she is subject to and her defiance of it. Between folds and tensions, this project evolves through five series: Gestures of fear, the Desire that breaks, Mutism of the word, the Body’s panic and the Law of the fist.
This subdivision responds first of all to the artist's need to stage fear through the plurality of its aspects, both physical and mental, which she enacts by working on through colour prints, and also in black and white, in a three-dimensional space.
This sequencing further allows her to develop a narrative that inscribes the gesture in time, and also to anchor the spectator's mind in a scenario, so that they engage in a confrontation with their own fears.
Riccarda Montenero asked the director Teresa Scotto di Vettimo to delve into her work. Consequently, she presents the short film Dressed by Fear: Vision of an Ordinary Visitor, performed by Laurent Borel in collaboration with Riccarda Montenero.
In the context of the exhibition of this project at Mémoire de l'Avenir, from November 13 to December 18th, the performance Alpha Bêta Sarah, based on the novel by Constance Chlore, is presented on 11 December. Below you can discover a part of it.
A performance with the dancer David Pisani the pop singer Rosie not Rosie, a sound creation by Romain Pangaud and a reading by Constance Chlore. On a backdrop of domestic violence, this performance develops around Ernest's luminous dream of learning to fly like a bird.
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1 Jodelet, Denise. "Social Dynamics and Forms of Fear," New Journal of Psychosociology, vol. 12, no. 2, 2011, pp. 239-256.
As part of its project Humanities, Arts and Society initiated and developed with UNESCO Most and the International Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences (C.I.P.S.H), Mémoire de l'Avenir presents the artistic project Inhabited by Fear online for the the World Philosophy day, created around the latest photo-series by the artist Riccarda Montenero.
This pluridisciplinary project (photography, performance, short film, texts) carries a visual and performative reflection on the elements underlying our fears, on the way they inhabit us and the mechanisms that human beings summon to overcome them.
DISCOVER:
The 6 reflective texts on this work and on the phenomenon of fear, by Margalit Berriet, Christian Gattinoni, Isabelle de Maison Rouge, Roberto Mutti and Teresa Scotto di Vettimo.
The performance Alpha Bêta Sarah based on the latest novel of Constance Chlore with dancer David Pisani and sound creation by Romain Pangaud
5. Law of the fist - 2020
3. Mutism of the word - 2020
4. Panic of the body - 2020
2. Broken desire - 2020
1. Gestures of fear - 2020
Alpha Bêta Sarah
Full performance to discover Saturday 11 December 2021 at 6pm - Mémoire de l'Avenir - Paris
This performance is based on Constance Chlore's latest book Alpha Bêta Sarah (published by Le Nouvel Attila, 2020), which, against a backdrop of domestic violence, unfolds around Ernest's luminous dream of learning to fly like a bird.
Text and voice: Constance Chlore
Song: Rosie not Rosie
Dance: David Pisani
Sound design: Romain Pangaud
Vidéo : Constance Chlore, David Pisani et Romain Pangaud
recorded at the Studio de la Danse in Nantes on 16 June 2020).
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Inhabited by Fear
Riccarda Montenero
Photographic project by series
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Inhabited by fear
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