Ragtag [OmeU] Germany, France, Italy, 2022, R: Giuseppe Boccassini, 84 Min.

PREMIERE with Director  Giuseppe Boccassini

You are invited to join a unique experience that explores the history of film noir. Ragtag is a chronological timeline collage that combines a diverse range of footage from the classic era of American cinema, which French critics identified as film noir in the 1950s. This decoupage-based work spans approximately twenty years and features around 310 noir films, ranging from the early 1940s to the late 1950s. It also includes several foreign-made film noirs.

An atlas of film gestures and Pathosformel: the montage - better the disassembly - isolates moments from the narrative and separates bodies from events, opening up to the unthinkable and the invisible of film noir. Ragtag, thus, becomes an immense archive of the imaginary that, far from being sequential and historical, becomes intensive and organic: a film-experience beyond film as such. - Federico Rossin, film historian.