Who Do You Think You Are

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In “Who Do You Think You Are” (1986, 10 minutes) the main character, a filmmaker, investigates her own cigarette smoking habit while wishing she could make “a film about injustice.” She wishes, in other words to do something heroic. She has been seduced by the image of the cigarette-smoking hero, but an image is only an image. Rent the 16mm film or buy it as part of a 3 film DVD collection.

“You might say the film’s success is in its representation of failure. It refuses ideology, just as it refuses to be tied to a single form or technique. If post-modern means eclectic, then Filippo’s film is our most post.”
Marjorie Keller, Filmmaker and writer
Center Quarterly
“No one else has dealt with the powerful mimicry that comes from watching too many old movies with their glamorous smokers—except perhaps Godard….”
Katherine Dieckmann, Film Critic
Village Voice

Selected Screenings

WNET Independent Focus
American Museum of the Moving Image
Whitney Museum
Black Maria and Atlanta Film Festivals
Gallery Association of New York traveling exhibition
Robert Flaherty Film Seminar