Fireflies (Lucciole)

Fireflies is a 2021 film by Pauline Curnier Jardin in collaboration with Feel Good Cooperative, a social collective founded by the artist, an architect and a group of sex workers in Rome in 2020, in an effort to provide financial assistance to the sex workers of the Italian capital during the initial lockdown in the pandemic. The film was shot in the peripheries of Rome, where in ancient times there used to be fireflies, while today there is a freeway, and cars hitting the road with their headlights. Eventually, with their passing, they act like searchlights that occasionally spot sex workers walking or posing at the edge of the street. The film follows their erratic flashing and in a nostalgic night-blue light offers glimpses of visibility to the otherwise invisible bodies of these contemporary lucciole, to their braziers, their vinyl boots, bonfires and griefs. 

Producer: Jacqui Davies, PRIMITIVE FILM. In collaboration with HKW Berlin and CRAC Occitanie

This screening is part of Nightfalling the first chapter of the film program TUTTAUNANOTTE, curated by Francesco Urbano Ragazzi, and unfolding in four chapters between November 1, 2025 and December 26, 2025, with the films of each chapter streaming for two weeks.

For more information, contact program@e-flux.com.