Shipwrecks on timeless lands. Pietro Marcello’s “Martin Eden” between aesthetic hybridizations, mnemonic fragmentations and identity encroachments

Authors

  • Arianna Vergari Roma Tre University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6093/sigma.v0i4.7516

Keywords:

Pietro Marcello, Martin Eden, memory, archive, anachronism

Abstract

Martin Eden (2019) is Pietro Marcello’s latest film, a free adaptation of Jack London’s 1909 novel of the same name. The hybridization of languages, especially between fiction and non-fiction, and the use of archival footage – director’s stylistic code – reaffirm the originality and visionary power of Marcello’s cinema. Transporting the protagonist of London from the 1909 Oakland into a multi-temporal Naples, and assigning to an extraordinary Luca Marinelli the task of taking a dense, political and poetic journey throughout the “short century”, this film reflects on the ways in which images reconfigure memory, both the public memory, the one of an entire country, and the private and intimate memory of migrant subjects who wander among utopias and identity dispersions.

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Author Biography

Arianna Vergari, Roma Tre University

Arianna Vergari is a PhD student in Film Studies and Visual Culture from the Philosophy, Communication and Performing arts department in Roma Tre University.
In 2016, in addition to a master's degree in Philosophy and Communication, she graduated from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, specializing in documentary film.
Her studies focus on documentary cinema, especially experimental and avant-garde forms, audiovisual archive practices such as found footage film, the relationship between archives and cities in the context of city films.

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Published

2020-12-21

How to Cite

Vergari, A. (2020). Shipwrecks on timeless lands. Pietro Marcello’s “Martin Eden” between aesthetic hybridizations, mnemonic fragmentations and identity encroachments. SigMa - Rivista Di Letterature Comparate, Teatro E Arti Dello Spettacolo, (4), 895–920. https://doi.org/10.6093/sigma.v0i4.7516

Issue

No. 4 (2020): The representation of the Cold war in literature and the arts (1947-1989)

Section

Scenari

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