(2023, Italia, Lituania, 101')
“When I see Rome I see my mother. It’s been like that ever since she died.” It has been twenty-five years since Teresa took her own life in the Tiber River. Since then, Virginia Eleuteri Serpieri, her daughter, has been searching for Teresa in the darkness of the night, tracing timeless trajectories in the heart of the city, its river, and its waters. Rome transforms into AMOR, the “planet of healing,” which welcomes Teresa into a magical dimension where the past, present, and future blend into a fresco of poignant enchantment. The Rome of the river and water intertwines with that of the labyrinths of the mind, the depths of bonds woven by art, and everything that cannot die. “We look at the images, but they also re-look at us,” says the director, “and what drives us to make films is the attempt to put the pieces back together and give a sense to our most intimate joys and sorrows.”
Director, writer, and Italian artist, after earning a diploma in Sound Technique from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia and a Bachelor’s degree in Literature from Sapienza University, she dedicated herself to the art of images and sounds, exploring various languages and mediums, from the use of super8 film to computer graphics. Her films have been selected in several festivals, including those in Rome and Seoul, and screened in museums such as MAXXI, MACRO, and MAMbo. In 2015, she directed the documentary My Sister Is a Painter, which won the Casa Rossa Art Doc Award at the 33rd edition of the Bellaria Film Festival.
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