Saveri’s Marta

There’s something about portrait work that demands patience—the kind where you’re stuck in a room with one person and a camera, waiting for the distance between observer and observed to dissolve into something honest. Lele Saveri’s practice has always moved in that direction, stripping away the noise to find what’s left when you stop performing. A portrait called Alone With Marta suggests exactly that: two people, minimal setup, time doing its slow work. It’s the kind of film that probably feels longer than it is, but in the way that matters—where duration becomes part of the meaning.