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Dominican Rep. Diana's Looking-Glass
- Original title
- Lo specchio di Diana
- Year
- 1996
- Running time
- 29 min.
- Country
Italy- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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Documentary
- Music
- Producer
- Genre
- Documentary | Half-length Film. Experimental Cinema
- Synopsis
- In "Lo specchio di Diana", Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi recall the genealogy of imperial fantasies. On October 20, 1927, Mussolini gives the order to drain Lake Nemi to salvage the remains of two magnificent ships from Emperor Caligula, reviver of the Diana myth. The following year the first ship is freed from the mud, some time later the second. April 21, 1940: Mussolini returns to open the museum in which the two ships are exhibited. One is also able to see the triumphant Duce in Tripoli in 1926 and poison-gas victims in Ethiopia. In the spring of 1944, the ships and the museum are destroyed by a fire during the German retreat.
As in all of their found-footage works since the Comerio appropriation "Dal polo all'equatore", Gianikian and Ricci Lucchi use historical archive material, deconstructing, coloring, and re-mounting it in a process of cinematic contemplation. Their politics of memory focuses on the problem of viewing and complicity.
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