Small Body
History, Italian Style
June 4 - 25
Laura Samani’s solo debut feature is a richly traced drama about a woman’s efforts to resurrect her stillborn daughter, imbued with the air of an unsentimental fairy tale, and set in 1900 in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region.
Laura Samani’s solo debut feature is a richly traced drama about a woman’s resilience, imbued with the air of an unsentimental fairy tale. Set in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region (on the Italian-Slovenian border) in 1900, Small Body follows Agata (Celeste Cescutti), who is mourning her daughter’s stillbirth. Inspired by a rumor overheard in church, Agata undertakes a northward journey in the hopes of resurrecting her deceased child for just a single breath, so that she can be baptized, thereby ensuring her soul’s salvation. Her travels find her crossing paths with an assortment of characters—some of whom help her, while others impede her—as cinematographer Mitja Ličen’s camera chronicles Agata’s quest to save her daughter’s soul with an eye for the lyricism of the natural world and a curiosity about the supernatural.
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