Ferida arrel: Maria-Mercè Marçal
Directed by Marta Vergonyós, Andrea Nunes-Raquel Rei, Elena Molina, Judith Colell, Neus Ballús, Mireia Ibars, Laia Manresa, Mariona Omedes, Anna Petrus, Ona Planas, Elisabeth Prandi, Giovanna Ribes, Eva Serrats, Alba Sotorra, Lydia Zimmerman, Rosa Vergés, Núria Araüna, Mercè Ibarz, Elisabet Cabeza, Laura Ginès, Francesca Llopis
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Overview
"Ferida arrel MMM" is a collective film around the figure of the Catalan poet Maria Mercè Marçal composed by filmmakers of different generations who deep into her life and work with the intention of reflect the construction of female identity. But isn't just a simple tribute to Mercè, is also a mirror in which the directors experience their own reflection from Marçal views and proposals. A poet, translator, teacher, feminist, intellectual, mother... crossed in the mirror for multiple (re) construct a genealogy of women in pictures. A mirror identified as a woman and artist who talks about motherhood, language, female body, memory, popular tradition, nature, art, lesbian love, disease, death.
