Io voglio le ali bianche

Chiara Zilli : 2014
I Wish White Wings

Suddenly Chiara decided to leave the city where she lived and worked as a journalist and go back to Lecce. In Milan she was neither sad nor happy, she just had the feeling that she was living a life she had never chosen. When she was young, Chiara could dance even before learning to speak, and ever since she began to write, she used writing as a means to draw her fantasies about the world. She met Alessandra for the first time on the streets of Lecce, next to a church. Her singing echoing through the alleys brought Chiara to her. Her voice reached Chiara like the sound of someone's crying, as that crying had begun in the gut and then raised upwards. However it sounded like tears of happiness, the kind of happiness that belongs to those who know themselves and can express their inner selves. In what the director describes as "relationship cinema", the story oscillates between a faded VHS, renewing connections between the remote past and the present, and a Steadicam that quivers, with uncertainty, in front of new impulses; also a melancholy and bright Super-8 that lets itself be impregnated with the same matter of dreams. Chiara Zilli's documentary premiered at Salina Doc Fest 2014, and screened at Festival del Cinema Europeo Lecce 2015.