WATCH THE FILM
Film-poem of a performance exploring fertility, birth and life rituals, devised by Emilia Telese, for Michelangelo Pistoletto’s Rebirth Day program of events, which started on 21 December 2012. Screening at the Musée du Louvre.
Pregnant women walking on Cornwall’s Land’s End, form a Third Paradise symbol to celebrate a new beginning in their lives. The symbology of the performance meets the meaning of place in the name of change.
Emilia Telese chose Land’s End not only because of the symbology generated by its name, but also because of the associations between Cornwall and ritual, and the resonance of locations such as Men An Tol stone circle, used for fertility rites in the Bronze Age.
Life Begins at Land’s End explores the role of women, fertility and childbirth in society, and above all, the very start of life; the gestation and birth of a human being.
CREDITS
Director / Editor Rebecca E Marshall
Artist and Producer Emilia Telese
Artist and Assistant Martha Mosse
Site Coordinator Claire English
Music Rebecca E Marshall
Singer Bea Hankey
With thanks to the mothers of Land’s End, the staff at Unidee – Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella and Porthcurno Museum.
