Tina Modotti's tomb cleaned with Neruda's poetry
“Tina Modotti, sister, you do not sleep, no, you do not sleep:/perhaps your heart feels the rose/of yesterday grow, the last rose of yesterday, the new rose./Rest sweetly, sister.” These are some of the verses of the epitaph that Pablo Neruda dedicated to Tina Modotti, engraved on the tombstone under which lie the remains of the famous photographer, actress, passionate politician from Udine, buried in the Panteón de Dolores cemetery in Mexico City. The cleaning of the tomb, which also brought to light the words of the Chilean poet, took place last week on the occasion of filming for a documentary currently being made.
This is 'Tina', a film directed by Matteo Parisini, written by Riccardo Costantini, responsible for the scientific and archival research of the project.
As a passionate investigation, the film will cross cities and archives - from Moscow to San Francisco, from Berlin to Paris, reconstructing one of the densest and most mythologized biographies of the last century. The documentary will try to challenge the narratives crystallized in time, giving new life to one of the women protagonists of the twentieth century who will also be told by two of her greatest contemporary scholars and biographers, the Mexican writer Elena Poniatowska and the American anthropologist Patricia Albers.
The reportage will also be made thanks to the images kept in the precious archives of Pordenone. The central soul of this production, in fact, will be Cinemazero which, together with the Mediateca, has played a fundamental role in the recovery of precious photographic and documentary materials, becoming the engine and visual memory of this important work of historical and cultural reconstruction.
'TINA' is an Italian-French-Mexican co-production between Ladoc, Cima Film, Ghirigori and is supported by the Ibermedia Program, Film Commission Campania and the Regional Audiovisual Fund of Friuli Venezia Giulia.
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