walkabout: why?

When I read for the first time what the walkabout of the aboriginals is, I immediately thought of me, living in different countries and different towns. I thought of the meaning that I give to the places I have lived in, of the reference points I’ve found there and then lost, of the languages I’ve learned, of terms, words and meanings which bundle in the mind, confusing and enriching the ability to express myself. In the same way the places, the cities, the memories, the ways are overlapped in my memory. How do I orient myself? Where am I going? How coming back? And where to? Is this kind of travel also a ritual one?

the director

Patrizia Monzani was born in Italy in 1976. She studied Cinema, Art and Theatre at the University of Bologna and at the Cinema and Audiovisual Department, at the University of Paris 8. She graduated in 2000 with a Degree on The Representation of the Metropolis in French contemporary Cinema. She lived four years in Paris and worked there as editor assistant by Iris Production and by Grand Canal. In 2001 she worked in Rumania on the documentary Maramures, which got the Second Price at the Festival of Italian Documentary Libero Bizzarri, and a Commendation at the Maremma Film Festival. In 2002 she moved to Chemnitz where she worked at the Chemnitzer Filmwerkstatt e.V. as a tutor for youth projects (script, direction, editing and production of short films and animations). There she shot many short films. In Berlin, she worked for different film productions and was the co-founder of the underground art project Gedanken-Strich, publishing a magazine and a web-site. Her last short and poetry films have been screened at many international festivals. She currently works as a director and art curator.