“The Trickle Down Theory of Sorrow” (2002, 15 minutes) is a film that situates and incriminates the filmmaker in the web of economic and social injustices of her culture. It is an experimental, autobiographical documentary about being both the daughter of a working-class mother, and someone who has become (economically at least) middle-class and a mother herself.
Margarita De la Vega-Hurtado
Executive Director, The Robert Flaherty Film Seminar
“Reminiscent of some of the editing techniques of Germaine Dulac’s “Smiling Madame Beudet” and Su Friedrich’s early work, Filippo’s film goes even farther in making connections between U.S. consumption and overseas labor and asking questions about the relation of money to happiness. It is a far-reaching and riveting work.”
Yvonne Rainer
Filmmaker/Choreographer
Selected Screenings
- Ann Arbor Film Festival
- National Gallery of Art
- WNET, “Reel NY"
- New York Film Festival, “Views from the Avant Garde”
- Robert Flaherty Film Seminar