Interview with Alina Marazzi: The tactile gaze

Alina Marazzi is a well-known Italian feminist director whose explorations of women’s lives, the challenges they have faced (and still face) in society and the family have had a profound impact on film and feminist studies. She has contributed to creating a new cinematic language and mode of storytelling through experimenting with the use of both collage and montage. She has also made incursions into the world of fashion with a film on international fashion icon and intellectual Anna Piaggi, and later with her short film that the House of Dior commissioned: To Cut Is to Think (2020). The interview focuses on this latter film where Marazzi shares her experience in working on the film, the opportunities it opened up for her creative process, her collaboration with Maria Grazia Chiuri, and her encounter with the work of the poet and artist Lucia Marcucci, whose work is the subject of the film.