Elisabetta Di Maggio Documentary Premieres at Artecinema in Naples

Key facts

• Elisabetta Di Maggio. Leaves of me, directed by Alessandra Galletta, will have its world premiere on October 9 at Teatro Augusteo in Naples.
• The documentary is part of Artecinema, an international festival of films on contemporary art, held in Naples from October 8 to 11.
• The film runs just over half an hour and follows Di Maggio's creative process, including inspiration, reflection, planning, creation, and installation of her works.
• It was shot between Di Maggio's Venice studio and the GAM, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Torino, where a recent exhibition of her work took place.
• The title comes from Di Maggio's Leaves series, made using leaves of various plants to reveal their morphology and fibers.
• Di Maggio's method involves cutting materials such as tissue paper, plant leaves, soaps, porcelain, and wall plaster with a sharp surgical scalpel.
• The festival also features a docufilm on Anna Maria Maiolino and films on artists including Hilma af Klint, Isabella Ducrot, Tamara de Lempicka, Regina José Galindo, Valie Export, and Vanessa Beecroft.
• Artecinema per il sociale will bring the festival to primary and secondary schools in Naples' outskirts and to detainees at the juvenile penal institute of Nisida.