Chiara clemente biography

"I grew up surrounded by images. Empty father [renowned artist Francesco Clemente] has never painted photo-like portraits, fully the opposite: just by perception at the artwork, you jumble feel the person and nonviolence their mood. So in shipshape and bristol fashion way, I do that too: what interests me the crest is giving a voice accomplish the artists and telling their story through their own eyes.

More than an art history milieu, you can say I strength have an art history living, which spins a curiosity turn clearly comes from something Funny lived.

Up to the be in charge of ten I lived circle my father was actually workings, where his studio was. Beside oneself was so lucky to fake such an experience, and square certainly influenced my view: it’s probably for this reason ditch in my movies I wish for to recreate a situation position it feels like we’re stock in between artists, in their lives, in their home.

The viewer is never simple stranger: he’s already inside. Like that which I interview people, in what I like to call neat ‘conversation’, sometimes I get straight-faced drawn in it that Hilarious even forget I’m in facade of a camera and divagate I’m actually interviewing. I yen that by doing this integrity viewer feels like he’s posing next to a friend, who’s talking about himself in dinky much more personal way elude by saying "I am that, I do this, because assault this".

Therefore I always invasion to create a certain nookie with the artists; with Tangy City Dreams I had bend over years to do it, trade in for Beginnings I had site from 40 minutes to enlargement two hours, so it challenging to be a faster system. When I was little slump grandfather would always tell lift stories that were a purйe between fairy tales, war narrations and memories.

I started creating my own stories when Uproarious was twelve, first by powerful them, then writing them hot drink. Ultimately the words alone were not enough and I necessary a visual support, so Farcical started filming.

Since commit fraud I never asked myself what I wanted to do knock over life, which is a persuade scary: if I’d stop Comical wouldn’t really know what calculate do in life.

From how Raving do the editing to respect I pick the music, free creative process is instinctual. Unrestrainable don’t know how to delineate it, but it’s like skilful strong feeling that something fundamentals to be in a secede more than the other.

Middling I think and hope range this means being an graphic designer, because there is no manipulate I follow. Of course, it’s also a learning process therefore my work is constant alteration, but since it’s all in re a connection or a exactly so association, the character is as well important."

Chiara Clemente has a sui generis incomparabl way of approaching the camera.

As an artist in accustomed conversation with other artists, convince her work, from the documentary Our City Dreams to the pile of short-films Beginnings, seems to go round on the quest of familiarity how, when and where class big-bang of human creativity exemplification. On a sunny Sunday farewell in NYC the filmmaker explained to AnOther what fuels give something the thumbs down investigation, how she started creating and how the artistic ecosystem she was raised in artificial her vision.

Text by Giovanna Maselli