01/09/2026
𝐁𝐚𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞
Curated by Vincenzo Estremo & Annalisa Pellino
3 September 2026 · 20.30
CinemaO — Via Luigi Cirenei 6A, Milan
Babette, the suspended presence at the heart of Don DeLillo’s White Noise (1985), hovers between consciousness and premonition: vital and reassuring, yet profoundly vulnerable. She moves through the media’s white noise, haunted by the possibility that it may suddenly turn into an alarm—or signal an imminent catastrophe.
The protagonists of the films we propose—women performing folk tales, children gradually losing their words, and an elderly blind woman—occupy a similarly unstable space between absence and presence, vulnerability and vitality. As resonant bodies, they invite a vibrant, haptic mode of listening, turning disappearance, blindness, and the loss of language into generative sites of invention. Through vocal gestures and movement, they forge forms of communication that are at once fragile and powerful.
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✶ Emilija Škarnulytė, Aldona, 2013 (13’)
In the spring of 1986, Aldona lost her vision and became permanently blind. The nerves in her eyes were poisoned. Doctors claimed that it was probably due to Chernobyl’s Nuclear Power Plant explosion. In the film we follow Aldona through a daily sojourn to Grutas Park, touching both the past and the present.
✶ Noor Abed, our songs were ready for all wars to come, 2021 (22’)
The haunting sound of a woman’s voice. A song sung by Palestinian singer Maya Khaldi with lyrics of different Palestinian folk tales. Women performing draw connections between latent stories of water wells and communal rituals associated with disappearance, mourning and death.
✶ Adele Dipasquale, Lose Voice Toolkit, 2024 (18’30’’)
In a suspended, undefinable place and time we see a group of children who don’t use words anymore. They might have lost them due to powerful voice-stealing magnets, or dissolved by voice-vanishing candies. So, they start to transform and develop a new system of communication made of aerial forms, sharp gazes, and shared thoughts.
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Original-version screenings with English subtitles.
Free entry with annual membership (€5) — reservation link in bio 💌
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