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"Wandering Souls": a Sardinian ethnographic film adaptation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses
Feb
27
2026
2:10pm - 4:00pm
On Campus Event - Old Library, Old Library 224
The Department of Transnational Italian Studies is delighted to announce "Wandering Souls": a Sardinian ethnographic film adaptation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses," a film presentation and discussion with director Maria Giménez Cavallo. The event is organized within Roberta Ricci's course “Literature and Film, Literature into Films and Back” (ITAL B325) and is open to everyone.
Please contact rricci@brynmawr.edu for more information.
Abstract:
The 2024 film Anime galleggianti (Wandering Souls, 71 minutes) directed by Maria Giménez Cavallo reinterprets the stories of the most intriguing characters of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, reinvented through Sardinian tradition and culture. A hybrid experiment between reality and imagination, the film is the result of a close collaboration with artisans, musicians and local inhabitants. The metamorphoses culminate in the carnival ritual, symbolized by the island's archaic masks, neither human nor animal, but almost divine figures that visually transcend the boundaries of the natural world.
Speaker's bio:
After graduating from Columbia University in Film Studies and Italian Cultural Studies, Maria Giménez Cavallo spent four years collaborating with Abdellatif Kechiche as an artistic collaborator, casting director, assistant director, and editor on the Mektoub, My Love trilogy. She later relocated from Paris to Rome, to work with Pietro Marcello, Alice Rohrwacher, and Francesco Munzi on the 16mm documentary Futura, and subsequently served as artistic director on Marcello’s L’Envol. In 2020, she founded her own production company, Anima Films, and directed several short films with the central theme of nature such as Jeanne, petite bergère, La grande quercia, and La visita. She has participated in international workshops including the Venice Biennale College, Locarno Spring Academy, and Armani Laboratorio. Her debut feature, Anime galleggianti—a reimagining of Ovid’s Metamorphoses—premiered at the "Alice nella città" section of the Rome Film Festival in 2024.
The event is co-sponsored by the Department of Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies and by the Film Studies Program.
Audience: Public
Type(s): Lecture, Seminar/Colloquium
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Contact:
Roberta Ricci
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