Some Chance Operations (1999)

Shot in Naples Vienna and New York Some Chance Operations explores the notion of an archival form in this instance film as an unstable memory receptacle that can vanish History and how it is made is meditated upon as one of many chance operations The filmmaker Elvira Notari who had a film production company in Naples from 1906 to 1930 plays a significant role as an impetus for Some Chance Operations Despite the fact that she was a prolific filmmaker producing over sixty feature films only three remain intact