“In New York in the 1980s, we were our audience” – Liberation

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–For the release of her film “Variety”, the director retraces the artistic life in Manhattan in the 1980s, the creative ebb caused by the mixing of genres and the encounters that gave life to her film.–

From New York, where she lives, the director remembers the artistic effervescence of Manhattan at the beginning of the 1980s, of which her first feature film testifies. Variety.

“When I moved to New York in 1980, I was captured by the city’s dungeons, the ones shown in films such as the drug port by Samuel Fuller o Naked City by Jules Dassin. While exploring the city, I stumbled upon the Variety Theater – his neon sign was like a step back in time. I couldn’t stop looking at her! I really wanted to know more about this cinema. How this former stable of the wealthy Stuyvesant family had become a porn cinema. I had found my furniture. The heroine of my film would be a cashier and she in her glass booth she would observe how much she would be seen. I wanted to reverse the stereotype: she would be the detective and the man would be the enigmatic and elusive object. In the end, my character rarely enters the cinema. But she hears the sound of the movies. We experience how much what we hear involves us more than what we see because listening necessarily arouses our own images.

“In New York in the 1980s it was easy to slip between the world of art, music, film and performance. The films showed the neighborhoods where the filmmakers lived – East Village, Soho, Tribeca – the housing market was in very bad shape and this collapse …

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