For the video trilogy An Urban Story, the artist asked three friends to make her a guide tour in their car around the place where they live, or used to live - a small city in Italy, a town in England and a city in Germany.

Invited to show the sights related to his personal experience and memory of the place, rather than those representative city-sights of historical and cultural importance, they introduce the urban landscape through mixture of general information, anecdotes and comments.
In each film the narrator always remains out of frame, leaving exclusively the panoramic view from the car window to unfold in front of the camera. Their 'storytelling' and the 'scrolling' urban landscape weave the apparent anonymity of each, to portrait not as much a particular location or person, but rather a more general problematic of historical legacies, urbanisation, transformation, and the questions of home, displacement and alienation in our society, in this case particularly related to the Western European context. The one, yet, away from those globally well-known metropolises, often depicted as emblematic to identify our contemporary condition.
Shot in a straightforward documentary style, An Urban Story explores the relationship between the personal and collective space and their ways of interaction in the everyday. How their bonding is put in act by the fragments of architectural forms and individual interpretations of the socio-historical context shaping our living place.

go to An Urban Story #1

go to An Urban Story #2

go to An Urban Story #3