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Content Note: Act 1 of the film contains flashing lights.
Synopsis: A Healing Opera is a meditative journey through neurodiversity, solitude, healing, and queerness, blending archival footage, sound, and teddy bear performance into three transformative acts.
Using archive footage captured on their mobile phone during the lockdown periods in Portugal and the UK, Elisabetta crafts a 3-act film that explores feelings of solitude and grief. Inspired by somatic healing and Buddhist meditation practices, the work follows their personal journey toward reconnection with themself and with all beings, tracing the transformation of thoughts into complex bodily sensations.
In Act 1, a pigeon story addresses the trauma of loss, as well as the solitude and alienation linked to depression and neurodiversity. Act 2 draws inspiration from the song “Upside-Down Cake”, creating a tender space for diversity and self-compassion. Act 3 begins with images of death and rebirth as a clumsy transformation, culminating in a reclamation of queerness, joy, and self-expression.
This film was made for Elisabetta’s MA degree show at Goldsmiths University. Fruity Pebblez composed the soundtrack, and bear Favorito delivered a captivating performance. A Healing Opera marks the beginning of the artist’s professional collaboration with teddy bears.
Artist Bio: Elisabetta (b. Italy, 1979) is a multimedia artist based between Venice and London. Their contemplative films explore the sensory connections between beings, drawing from queer ecology, eco-feminism, and spiritual animism. Through stillness and meditation, Elisabetta invites viewers to experience new forms of relationship and ecological awareness. Recent works, including Breath of a Stone, Parallel Cycles, and A Healing Opera, reflect on the symbiosis between living and non-officially-living matter. www.orsorosa.com @elisabetta_antonucci
Online Premiere
Content Note: Act 1 of the film contains flashing lights.
Synopsis: A Healing Opera is a meditative journey through neurodiversity, solitude, healing, and queerness, blending archival footage, sound, and teddy bear performance into three transformative acts.
Using archive footage captured on their mobile phone during the lockdown periods in Portugal and the UK, Elisabetta crafts a 3-act film that explores feelings of solitude and grief. Inspired by somatic healing and Buddhist meditation practices, the work follows their personal journey toward reconnection with themself and with all beings, tracing the transformation of thoughts into complex bodily sensations.
In Act 1, a pigeon story addresses the trauma of loss, as well as the solitude and alienation linked to depression and neurodiversity. Act 2 draws inspiration from the song “Upside-Down Cake”, creating a tender space for diversity and self-compassion. Act 3 begins with images of death and rebirth as a clumsy transformation, culminating in a reclamation of queerness, joy, and self-expression.
This film was made for Elisabetta’s MA degree show at Goldsmiths University. Fruity Pebblez composed the soundtrack, and bear Favorito delivered a captivating performance. A Healing Opera marks the beginning of the artist’s professional collaboration with teddy bears.
Artist Bio: Elisabetta (b. Italy, 1979) is a multimedia artist based between Venice and London. Their contemplative films explore the sensory connections between beings, drawing from queer ecology, eco-feminism, and spiritual animism. Through stillness and meditation, Elisabetta invites viewers to experience new forms of relationship and ecological awareness. Recent works, including Breath of a Stone, Parallel Cycles, and A Healing Opera, reflect on the symbiosis between living and non-officially-living matter. www.orsorosa.com @elisabetta_antonucci
Online Premiere
