Anja Marie Kirschner, Moderation
5 October 2015
On the set of Moderation (Anja Kirschner, 2015). ph. Valeria Tomasulo
On the set of Moderation (Anja Kirschner, 2015). ph. Valeria Tomasulo
On the set of Moderation (Anja Kirschner, 2015). ph. Valeria Tomasulo
On the set of Moderation (Anja Kirschner, 2015). ph. Valeria Tomasulo
On the set of Moderation (Anja Kirschner, 2015). ph. Valeria Tomasulo
On the set of Moderation (Anja Kirschner, 2015). ph. Valeria Tomasulo
On the set of Moderation (Anja Kirschner, 2015). ph. Valeria Tomasulo
On the set of Moderation (Anja Kirschner, 2015). ph. Valeria Tomasulo
Nomas Foundation is pleased to announce the end of the shooting of Moderation, a feature-length film by the artist Anja Kirschner, commissioned by the curator Nadja Argyropoulou for PCAI (Polyeco Contemporary Arts Initiative) (Greece), co-produced by Beirut, Cairo (Egypt) and Nomas Foundation (Italy), with support of the Elephant Trust (UK).
Nomas Foundation supported the artist and her cast and crew during filming in Rome and Ostia in June 2015.
Set in Egypt, Greece, Italy and the US, Moderation reflects on the way psychological, historical and material realities are connected through the prism of the film-making progress itself.
Its main protagonists - a director (Maya Lubinsky) and a screenwriter (Anna De Filippi), are in the early stages of developing a commercial feature film, but soon their own conflicting desires and the events simultaneously occurring around them, take them far beyond their initial intentions.
Forced to radically reconfigure her project, the director becomes more and more drawn into conversations with the actors she has cast (Michele Valley in Greece, Aida Elkashef in Egypt and Giovanni Lombardo Radice in Italy), which center on the way cinema intersects with their own lives and gives expression to the realities they are confronted with.