Constanze Ruhm’s essay film Gli appunti di Anna Azzori unfolds as a layered, investigative meditation on a life captured on film. Working from the earlier Anna by Alberto Grifi and Massimo Sarchielli (Berlinale Forum 1975), Ruhm assembles clusters of archival material and reflection to trace Anna Azzori’s precarious existence without resolving it. The film probes the place of women, memory and representation, deconstructing patriarchal narratives through a fragmentary, tactile cinematic language that is intimate, questioning and quietly insistent.