ELVIRA FUSTO
CINEMA
MADRE SNATURA
The Etna Park is the backdrop for Elvira Fusto's artistic installation. "Mother Snatura" is the protagonist through the bodies of 28 women, thin and half-naked, whose made-up faces revive the fauna of Etna. Porcupine woman, fox, owl, golden eagle, hawk, viper and hedgehog with a body throttled by a black electric cable that ends with the thorn tight between the model's teeth, as an emblem of a nature continually outraged by man. The video tells the unease and mismatch of Nature that tries to reconcile with the three hundred illegal landfills that occupy the territory.
The bodies are thus arranged, in groups of seven, around objects that have long been residing in the Park belonging to the UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The number chosen by the artist is not a random number, in fact the number seven in the symbology is composed of a triangle and a square, thus recalling the pyramid symbol of the divine that resides in every being and the tetragon symbol of the stability of every being living in the self-respect. In the background, majestic, there is Etna. The video, a short film on the genesis of Mother Snatura, lasting three and a half minutes, takes us back to the origins of the relationship with the mountain, to the primordial and ancient affections that generate love relationships with Mother Nature.
CON TE E SENZA DI TE
“Con te e senza di te” is a short film co-written with Lucia Sardo, where I played the role of myself.
I wrote it because I wanted to tell about the relationships between man and woman and how easy it is in these to pass from the role of queen, without the other wanting it, to the role of servant, from protagonist to victim. In the short film I also tell, at the end, that when we make an act of will and faith, we make the decision to stop with a poisonous relationship, it is possible!
This is the story.
Silvana, Rita, Lucia and Elvira find themselves, for a strange astral conjunction, all four struggling with the end of long relationships. They decide to "heal" at home, being together, reading and discussing, cooking good things. Specifically, Silvana is still in love with Niki, a painter to whom she had devoted herself body and soul, without having anything back but brief moments of affection, and disinterest. To eradicate the love for Niki da Silvana, her friends decide to subject her to a rite of psychomagic, taken from the master's books Alejandro Jodorowski.
