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Shorts 2: Artistic Visions – Stargazing. A dialogue on Creation Between Serial Silence-killers
August 31, 2024 @ 4:49 pm – 4:56 pm EDT
Lying in total darkness, two young immortals discuss whether it is time to create the world once again. A cosmogonic screwball comedy.
Director/Writer: Niccolò Buttigliero
Starring: Letizia Alaide Russo | Lorenzo Tombesi
2023 | 7 mins | Italy | Italian | Color | 🏆 | Experimental, Romance, Art
Courtesy of Eden Studios
Screening in Theater #2
Other films in this program include:
About the Filmmaker
Totally and idiosyncratically independent director, based in one of Turin’s satellite cities. Turin: here Nietzsche enjoyed the best cuisine of his life, and here he definitively lost his mind. His films always talk about the only two things worth living for: art and suicide. He has always combined his activity as a filmmaker with that of a scholar and film critic. Ut scandala eveniant.
Director’s Statement
STARGAZING is a film that pushes towards nothingness. Stylistically, grammatically, dramaturgically. To represent the emptiness and inhumanity of a virgin and pre-linguistic space, the choice was to use a square aspect ratio, to lower the FPS to 16, to desaturate the image to the point of making it ectoplasmic. The frame becomes a totally neutral space in which shapes are now drawn and now erased, always reabsorbed into absolute darkness. In seven minutes STARGAZING talks about the birth and death of the universe and, at the same time, about the contradictory drives at the basis of every creative act: the will to express, and the equally powerful will to say nothing, for fear of killing the silence.