Life, Art and Revolution, Tina Modotti (Abscondita)
Many have tried to tell the story of Tina Modotti (born in Udine in 1896 and died in mysterious circumstances in Mexico City in 1942), a great photographer in the post-revolutionary Mexico, who played in the English Civil War one of the women and the most representative artists of the twentieth century, legendary figure in his own lifetime and later became an icon of the feminist movement. But beyond the more or less fictional representations, are the letters of Tina Modotti, Edward Weston, an artist who through some "immortal portraits" was able to stop forever the unique beauty of his companion and model. The correspondence, which goes from 1922 to 1931, the year in cui la Modotti è già a Mosca, inserita nel Soccorso Rosso Internazionale, le restituisce una dimensione privata che era stata cancellata dalla retorica del mito. Nelle lettere a Weston, l'interlocutore privilegiato, si colgono i conflitti, gli slanci e i tormenti di un'anima femminile perennemente in lotta tra "arte e vita", tra "passione e rivoluzione".
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