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Autoritratto all' Inferno, 2021, 8mm to digital, single channel, colour, 3 min.

Synopsis

 

This hybrid piece is a collage created assembling both analog and digital material.
Several layers of 8mm film and disparate fragments come together to create a self-portrait of the director.

The first layer is an 8mm "orphan film" (found footage) from the 1970s, entitled "Woman dancing with a Dog" and found by chance at an antiques auction.

The second layer is an 8mm film that has been buried underground for a few weeks and subjected to a natural decomposition process. While being covered in earth, the film emulsion has been eaten by the bacterias in the ground, plus some bacterias from yeast and sugar. 

The third layer is an 8mm home movie that has been first decayed in soil, using the aforementioned technique, then hand-painted with film ink.

Selected Exhibitions

Torino Film Festival, Italy

Mimesis Documentary Festival, USA

FLIGHT/ Mostra Internazionale del Cinema di Genova, Italy

Festival Internacional de Cine Contemporáneo Cámara Lúcida, Ecuador

Interface Video Art Festival 2022

Ribalta Experimental Film Festival 2022

Fisura, International Festival of Experimental Film & Video 2022

Balkan Can Kino 2022

Kinoskop - Analog Experimental Film Festival 2021

International Festival Signs of the Night / Bangkok, Thailand

Festival Universitario de Cine y Audiovisuales Equinoxio, Colombia

EFEA - Experimental Film East Anglia, UK

Bogotá Experimental Film Festival / CineAutopsia, Colombia

UNDERWATER LOVE FILM FESTIVAL, Italy

Engauge Experimental Film Festival, USA

Revolutions per Minute Festival, USA

Helios Sun Poetry Film Festival, Mexico

Prismatic Ground, UK

TRANÅS AT THE FRINGE - Experimental Films and Videopoems, Sweden

Interface Video Art Festival, Croatia

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