Lella Costa
Memory and oral narration
Interviewed in 2012, Gabriella "Lella" Costa, born in 1952 in Milan, remarks the importance of the memory and the oral narration.
She begins the interview by remembering her grandmother, her ravioli. She tells of her experience as a theatre actress and the importance of memory.
Video table of contents
- Introduction
- Cesare Pavese and the borderlands
- Grandma's ravioli
- Women's knowledge
- To give food is to give life
- Grandmother
- Memories of images and profumes
- Sense of belonging
- Land and sea
- Ligurian sea
- Fishermen
- Theatre
- Orality
- Translations
- From real need in order to tell stories
- Subjectivity
- We recognize to be old when we say sufferance without feeling anything
- The need of narration
- Sharing unicity
- The value of experience
- Granaries of memory
- Memory is not a sin until it is useful
Interview information
Country: IT
Region: Lombardia
City: Milano
District: MI
Altitude: 122m s.l.m.
Wikipedia: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lella_Costa
Gabriella Costa
Date of birth: 09-30-1952
City: Milano
School: University
Profession: Doctor
Languages: Italiano
Bibliography:
La daga nel loden, Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore, Milano 1991
Che faccia fare, Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore, Milano 1998
In tournée, Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore, Milano 2002
Leviamo le tendine, con Juliette Mai in Principesse azzurre crescono, a cura di Delia Vaccarello, Oscar Mondadori, Milano 2006
Amleto, Alice e la Traviata, Feltrinelli, 2008
La sindrome di Gertrude. Quasi un'autobiografia, con Andrea Casoli, Rizzoli, 2009
Filmography:
Ladri di saponette, regia di Maurizio Nichetti (1989)
Visioni private, regia di Francesco Calogero (1990)
500!, regia di Giovanni Robbiano, Lorenzo Vignolo e Matteo Zingirian (2001)
"La donna della mia vita", regia di Luca Lucini (2010)
Manuale d'amore 3, regia di Giovanni Veronesi (2011)
Document by: Andrea Icardi
Video by: Piercarlo Grimaldo, Andrea Icardi
Created: 12-07-2012
