Flighty matters

“Flighty matters” is a series of short films around the politics of production of voice and strategies of active denial. The first video explores the ‘Farfallino’ language, a coded version of Italian used by children to secretly communicate between each other. The second video reconstitutes the performance of Puccini’s aria “Un bel dì vedremo”, from the problematic opera “Madama Butterfly”, sung in the argot of ‘Farfallino’. In the third video,”Harpy”, a woman loses her voice, nonetheless this mutism unravels the opportunity for a different stage of existence.
When language is so much manufactured and problematically connoted, the refusal of direct communication opens up a possibility for autonomy.