the brainchild of film-maker Rossella Piccinno, is a project engaged in the realization of audiovisual productions.
Dakhlavision proposes the vision as a meeting forum and as a means to foster mutual understanding between people with diverse experiences of the world. It is an alternative point of view in which individual stories and personal experiences are interwoven through cooperation. Dakhlavision already involves a group of individuals engaged in a variety of projects.
Dakhlavision is a name invented to Dakhla, a city of Western Sahara, between the ocean and the desert; Dakhla symbolises a threshold, a passage to another dimension, a place where a new vision begins. Like Alice, to pass through this door that leads to another world, one must be predisposed to change, one needs to be nourished with something that enables one to take that step beyond.
Dakhlavision aims to provide space for a new vision, a window opening on corners of reality that are far from fashion and the clamour of television. It is intended to develop a new way of seeing and, consequently, of thinking and of being.
To remain on the inside of things, but nevertheless critical and aware, seems today more than ever essential.
Rossella Piccinno - Biofilmography
Born 1978, Rossella Piccinno studied Documentary and Experimental Cinematography at the DAMS, Bologna University, graduating in 2004 with distinction. In her thesis on Carmelo Bene’s “Nostra Signora dei Turchi” she was able to combine a passion for the cinema with a longstanding enthusiasm for, and involvement in, the theatre.
Further study at the Palazzina, Imola, gave her a postgraduate qualification in video making. This led to her first professional experience, in animation, working for Achtoons.
In 2005 she began her career as director with the short “Interno Sei”, soon going on to produce and direct, in collaboration with the Italian Red Cross, the documentary “Mauritania: Ancient Libraries in the Desert”, which has been received with critical acclaim at a number of national and international film festivals. In “Occhi negli occhi: memorie di viaggio” (”first prize as best travel documentary” to the Video Festival of Imperia) the author aims to convey the magic of the experience of the 14,000-kilometer 4×4 journey from the motorways of Europe to the heart of the desert, in an intimate and evocative cine-diary which invites the viewer to consider the way different cultures interact.
Rossella subsequently returned to her native Salento where she realizes “To my Darling”, a video-elegy in memory of the artists Norman mommens and Patience Gray, faced also themes arising from the lot of immigrants in her report “Voices of Native and Migrant Women” (Prize “Visions of Territory” 2007). Developing from this experience “Hanna and Violka", currently in production, sounds the alarm at the plight of many live-in carers and home helps, poorly-paid immigrants working throughout Southern Italy with few rights and subject to exploitation and isolation.