The first person story of a violence suffered landed at the Venice Film Festival, among the collateral events of Italian Pavilion, during the meeting/debate on “” air “and” free ” – gender violence between realism and dystopia”. Conducted by the Messina journalist Marco Bonardelli, the debate took inspiration from the projection of two short films written and interpreted by the actress Barbara Sirotti with the direction of Beltempo embers.
At the work table, together with the author of the two courts, the psychotherapist Tony Bellucci, expert in toxic relationships, and the voice actress Benedetta degli Innocenti, who together with his colleagues Luca Ward, Francesco Pannofino and Alex Poli participated in the films, giving voice in the sensations of the protagonist trapped in the shirts of a sick love.
“The viewer is conducted in a parallel, dystopian reality – underlined Bonardelli – in which everything confuses assuming side dishes and shades, which Sirotti has decided to insert in two complementary,” air “and” free “works, which show subsequent stages of subjugation and rebirth of a woman”.
“I slept next to the man I believed he loved me – said the actress – but that day after day she began to humiliate me, submit me, despise me, until I doubt me of my own lucidity”.
A state of induced obnubilation, whose process starts from the content of “air”, an emblematic title of the feeling of suffocation lived by the woman, but also of what really happened (“I was about to die strangled”). In fact, both works show the protagonist immersed in a parallel reality where the events connect following an emotional, non -rational logic, and the story plans alternate in a suspended time such as that of the post Lockdown.
But getting out of violence can, with the help of the right people and a serious path of psychotherapy, as it is told in “Libera”, a highly demanding process of the process that leads to return to the victim dignity and freedom to self -determine. This was confirmed by the psychotherapist Tony Bellucci, who, intervening, entered the typical shirts of the violent relationship, specifying the “perverse game” of the attacker, usually a pathological narcissist skilled in gradually drag the victim into the perverse dialectic of pain/love, devaluing it and then save it, in a crescendo of humiliations and subsequent health actions. And she welcomes him driven by a need for love that leads her to believe in the change that will never happen.
During the evening, then, Barbara Sirotti trod the red carpet greeting the public and photographers through a message imprinted on the left hand: “Stop Violence”. A strongly symbolic gesture on the need for greater awareness on a theme of great topicality.