Hi, I'm Anna Flachi--Pilato from Marseille France

My name is Anna Flachi-Plato. I’m 18, from a working-class family, shaped by stories of colonialism and ancestry that has always been political. My father comes from an Italian background, and my mother is from French Algerian descent also called “pied noir”. These roots have taught me that identity is never neutral, and that art is never neutral either.
I am a queer woman from working-class beginnings, and I know my work will never exist solely to be decorative. I want it to matter.
In my first year of film school, a photography teacher reignited my love for the medium that first drew me to filmmaking. I never imagined I could feel so deeply for a single form of art,but I do.

My work on forlorn represents how do we find ourselves alone without landmarks following a trauma.In this particular case sexual assault.The overexposure of the lights makes the body almost holy.The colors are unreal which is intended to represent this feeling of the denial of reality. The use of my actual body but without actually people recognizing my face in it to show it can happen to anyone.

There is a power in a moment frozen in time, a truth that words often cannot reach. That is the work I want to dedicate myself to.