Harun Farocki Residency: Giulia Di Maggio

Harun Farocki Institut (HaFI) presents TWO MOTHERS, an ongoing experimental documentary film by Giulia Di Maggio, current HaFI resident supported by the French-German Cultural Institute Kultur Ensemble (Goethe-Institut/Institut Français, Palermo).

The film grows from Giulia Di Maggio’s loss of her mother, Angela, and an unresolved family story. As a child, Angela was given by her mother to her wealthier sister, Peri, who raised her without formal adoption—a practice once widespread. Now, Giulia follows the two elderly women in Sicily, weaving their story with family archives and Angela’s diaries to open an intergenerational dialogue on motherhood, family bonds and their role in shaping children's identity.

After screening a selection of excerpts from her works, the filmmaker will be in conversation with anthropologist Julia Pauli (University of Hamburg) and cultural theorist Clio Nicastro (HaFI/Bard College Berlin). Using the case of informal adoption between relatives as a starting point, the discussion will explore kinship and parenthood as dynamic phenomena that evolve over time and are influenced by social class.

The event will take place in English.

Saturday, November 15
Kuppelhalle
Start: 5 pm
Admission free