Rosa Aiello
Room Tone
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EditorMatthias Kliefoth
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LanguageGerman and English Edition
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Format14 × 21 cm
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Features128 pages, 55 color images, softcover
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ISBN978-3-95476-797-7
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ReleaseJanuary 2026
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Price€16.00
Relational Dynamics and the Hierarchies of Role
What can the process of filmmaking generate beyond a story told through images and sound—relational dynamics, out-of-the-ordinariness, a hierarchy of roles, and shifting states of observation, performativity or resistance? Can filmmaking alter our understanding of place and sense of belonging? What if in fact the told story and the images are secondary to the methods used, and that which comes into play among people in the process of capturing footage—films made not about something, but according to a set of conditions, both real and constructed? With these questions, artist, author, and filmmaker Rosa Aiello opens the conceptual space of this new issue in the KONTEXT series. She invites filmmakers working in hybrid forms of documentary, fiction, and experimentation to respond to these prompts.
Extraneous material, including a series of stills from b-roll of Aiello’s newest film projects complement the discussion while writer Yaniya Lee grounds the book in a perspective on the importance of methods and tools over images.
The artist and filmmaker Rosa Aiello (b. 1987, Canadian-Italian) takes an experimental approach to her interest in structures; both social constructs, like the family, and the actual built world, like architecture and city infrastructure. Her works have been shown at numerous international venues, including Fridericianum, Centre Pompidou, Kunsthalle Zurich, Pirelli Hangar Bicocca, ICA London, Anorak e.V, Kevin Space, Cittipunkt, and SculptureCenter.
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