Le Sibille [The Sibyls], 1977
Witten and directed by Lina Mangiacapre, music and performance of Le Nemesiache
https://5e.centre.ch/en/works/?id=909

The theft of the Sirens’ song is reimagined as a cine-fable of dispossession and ancestral reappropriation where mythic knowledge is reduced to legend and then reactivated as a feminist genealogy. In the land of Cumae, an old woman reads tarot cards, opening passages to buried stories contained in the alchemical elements of sea, fire, earth, and air. Through the figure of the Sibyl, ancestral prophecy becomes a form of collective clairvoyance and political foresight. From her cave, she calls on women to find one another “through the stones,” reclaiming a submerged history of female knowledge and existence. The act of memory disrupts patriarchal taxonomies, transforming bodies, matter, and time into sites of reincorporation and resistance. The film unfolds as an experimental constellation of feminist mythopoesis, consciousness-raising, and ritualistic choreography, culminating in a shape-shifting subjectivity that seeks not recognition, but revelation.