“Only when I was singing did I feel loved... to sing is an expression of your being, a being which is becoming.” –  Maria Callas

In MARIA, a new experimental film by Nina Danino, Maria Callas is seen in recordings of different performances – Norma, Tosca, Medea.  She is transfigured in an audio-visual iconostasis (a wall of icons) of different archive formats and newly shot footage. Maria is a hypnotic, cinematic and transcendent vision of an icon, an artist and a woman.

“Oh, Maria, what language do you speak? Oh, Maria Santissima how beautiful you are. An exalted art, an impossible voice. Oh, beautiful surface of the future image. Oh, image deified in the colour red. Oh reproduction and resurrection. Oh, recordings and re-recordings, subjected to treatments, to find the voice which resonates with the original lost one that each woman recreates again and again. Transverberates, transverberates. Mixing”. – Nina Danino

Nina Danino will be in attendance for post-screening Q&A moderated by Rita Di Santo