Paola Tintinelli is one of the most interesting and original Italian actresses. After her diploma at the Accademia delle Belle Arti in Milan, she didn’t attend established theatre academies but pursued her self-taught education with courses and seminars by Italian and international artists. She worked as an actress with various directors, among whom Davide Iodice, Claudio Morganti, Walter Leonardi. In 2001 she founded the company ASTORRITINTINELLI with Alberto Astorri
She is a theatre craftswoman: she devises and makes her own stage objects and has a love for sounds, voices and noises she has been recording for years. At Danae Festival she presents a work where she plays with her sound archive in a surreal and poetic journey.

Cosa sonora fuorilegge – Cosa son ora fuori … – cOSA sonORA fuorilegge – COSA OSA … ORA (un)fuorilegge – … OSA ORA …

… is something I’ve been writing for an insane amount of time, a nothing in all this, but everything in this nothing. It’s a film, or rather, the script of a supposed film where there’s nothing to be seen but what there is … it’s not a real ’film”, but a skin … a living one … my own … For now, it’s a thing, with no religion, no shape, no rhythm, no discipline… but with an original soundtrack composed of recordings made by myself in this frigging long life. The script features three subjects:
– an ugly woman ’with moustache on top of dat’, the main thing, the soul, the living skin …
– a camera, the external eye exposing the skin … the thing that watches and memorizes …
– a female editor, the thing that chooses, and edits plots and traumas among empty spaces.
The plot(rauma) refers to the person who makes a silent pause and finds herself alone, in a black hole, ’waiting’ for an escape route to get out of it.
I’d like to find interesting words to ’interest’ you, but I used them all to write the play … It’s just its first appearance, no one has ever seen or heard it. I’ve listened to it a lot … words, words, noise, noise, rumble, rumble, rumble … Periods, commas, dark spaces, shadows, shadows, shadows moving from thing to thing …
then I drew it and made a comic book of it, with drawings and words but no sounds… sounds and noises will be those that surround its reading.
… there’s always something missing …
(Paola Tintinelli)