PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Ann Oren, director of the film Piaffe.
After Locarno Film Festival last summer, Ann Oren is at the 36th Bolzano Film Festival for the Italian premiere of her first feature film, Piaffe. Based on a short film, Passage, Piaffe is also an homage to Foley artistry. As it is, in a way, also a coming of age following its protagonist Eva, Piaffe doesn’t follow the usual character’s arch, instead, tries to follow the narrative of life.
Piaffe: When her sibling Zara suffers a nervous breakdown, the introvert Eva is forced to take on Zara’s job as a Foley artist. She struggles to create sounds for a commercial featuring a horse, and then a horsetail starts growing out of her body. Empowered by her tail, she lures a botanist into an affair through a game of submission. Piaffe is a visceral journey into control, gender, and artifice.
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