A degenerated melodrama by Fabio Scacchioli and Vincenzo Core.

This film is an excavation experience among the forms of the fictional film, especially of melodrama. Emblem of cinema as an imitation of life, under his polished surface melodrama hides the restlessness of life itself. Starting from the cliché of the woman crying over a lost love, a journey begins in search of the background radiation of fiction cinema. It was necessary to forget every linguistic and dramaturgical convention, and get lost in a multitude of images and sounds, of crystal universes about to explode and subatomic labyrinths, to the point where image ceases to represent, and becomes pulsation. It weaves fields of modulated tensions, and reveals the vibration of the unseen. Cinema becomes a language of the invisible. A whisper that one can hear between porosities and ripples of the image as simulation.

The film is composed by pre-existing images: like karst rivers they cropped up in the light and returned down to follow invisible (and yet present) paths. Pictures were subjected to a particular treatment, which included multiple re-shooting sessions, and analogue processes (handmade masks, physical intervention on the images, etc..) combined with digital processes.

Music pieces are taken from the original movies, with the exception of a theme from the second movement “Un Bal” of Hector Berlioz’s “Symphonie Fantastique”. Concrete, instrumental and vocal sounds are also part of the music material. Signal processing is used to trace paths between Music, speech, and noise. Three parts of the same score. Sound and Image are treated like two instruments playing the same composition.

MAIN SELECTIONS AND AWARDS

• Award: 31mo Torino Film Festival — Torino, Italia —  dal 28/11/2013 al 30/11/2013
• Award: Mash Rome Film festival — Roma, Italia —  20/06/2014
• Award: MADATAC 06 – Contemporary Festival of New Media Arts & Advanced Audio Visual Technologies — Madrid, Spagna —  12/12/2014
• Award: Cineautopsia – Festival de cine experimental de Bogotà — Bogotà, Colombia —  23/04/2016
• Stuttgarter Filmwinter, 27ma edizione — Stoccarda, Germania —  17/01/2014
• Piattaforma di social cinema Fil’m Hafizasi per l’evento Thematic Friday-Arabesque Night — Istanbul, Turchia —  26/02/2014
• Next – International Film Festival — Bucarest, Romania —  dal 05/04/2014 al 06/04/2014
• Segnali 2014 — Perugia, Italia —  08/04/2014
• FILE – Electronic Language International Festival — San Paolo, Brasile —  dal 25/08/2014 al 05/10/2014
• L’Etrange Festival, 20ma edizione — Parigi, Francia —  10/09/2014
• WNDX Festival of moving images, 9a edizione — Winnipeg, Canada —  24/09/2014
• British Film Institute – London Film Festival — Londra, Regno Unito —  dal 19/10/2014 al 20/10/2014
• Signes De La Nuit International Festival — Parigi, Francia —  10/12/2014
• 6th new italian film & art festival — Seul, Corea del Sud —  2014
• Other movie film festival — Lugano, Svizzera —  2014
• Red bull music academy festival — New York, Stati Uniti —  2014
• Evento Debordeline — Teramo, Italia —  2014
• Premio internazionale della fotografia cinematografica “G. Di Venanzo” — Teramo, Italia —  2014
• FLEX, Florida Experimental film festival — Florida, Stati Uniti —  2015
• Festival presente italiano — Pistoia, Italia —  2015
• Mostra Internazionale del nuovo cinema di Pesaro, 53ma edizione, sezione Critofilm a cura di Adriano Aprà — Pesaro, Italia —  20/06/2017