The project

This is a long-term project started in 2011, when I went to Albania looking for “Sworn virgins” or so called “burrneshe“.

At the beginning my Subject was exclusively the Burrneshe and their community and my research had an anthropological approach.

I worked with analogical camera.

The result was a photographic reportage that I show in a little part here below:

After that I continued to work on the subject but reflecting more deeply on the question of the body as a container, so my work also started a new, more abstract phase.

The video “Fragile identities” is a first approach to the Editing : I collect and edit together the family albums of the burrneshe I met during many years of trips.

The video is 9:00 minutes about.

The music is from Iva Bittovà and Vladimir Vàclavek (Bilé Inferno Disk 2 “Zvon“) ©all rights reserved

In 2015 I started to work to a cinematographic documentary about burrneshe, still in progress. 

A first short film “A Je Burrneshe! Storie di donne e di vergini giurate” (A je Burrneshe! Stories of women and sworn virgins) was selected at the Perso Film Festival in 2015.

Thanks to LUZ and ACRE for soundtracks.

The one below has english subtitles / the one after is in italian.