MUSIC COMPOSERALVA NOTO-RYUICHI SAKAMOTO TRIOON, HIRD FEAT Y.NAGANO FADING BLUES, ALESSANDRO GALATI AMAXONIA, LOWAVE SOMETHING NEW
INSTAGRAM TAG@VIITTORIABECCHETTI #THALASSA
SOUND DESIGNVITTORIA BECCHETTI
PROPS STYLISTVITTORIA BECCHETTI, CASTORINA FIRENZE
SHORT SYNOPSISTHALASSA IS AN EXPERIMENTAL FILM, ITS THEME IS THE SHIPWRECK AND WHAT FOLLOWS: PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORIENTATION, ACCEPTANCE OF DEATH, LOSS OF OURSELVES, COLLAPSE OF OUR IDEALS AND LONELINESS BUT ALSO SURVIVAL AND THE WEIGHT OF HAVING TO JUSTIFY IT TO ONESELF, BY UNDERTAKING THE SEARCH FOR A TRUTH THAT WE WILL NEVER KNOW. THE SEA AND WATER, AN ESSENTIAL ELEMENT FOR LIFE, WITH WHICH OUR BODY IS MADE UP OF ABOUT SEVENTY PERCENT, BECOMES IN THE FILM A REFERENCE SYMBOL, A TIMELESS PLACE THAT REPRESENTS THE PASSAGE FROM LIFE TO DEATH. THE SEA CONTAINS A BEAUTY THAT, SINCE ALWAYS, PUTS US IN RELATION WITH OURSELVES, BEFORE A HORIZON SO CLEAN TO FORCE US TO AN INTIMATE JOURNEY WITH OUR FEARS; THUS, TIED TO A BODY THAT TRIES TO ABANDON ITS ORGANIC STATE, FEELING A FRIGHTENING LIGHTNESS, AT THE MERCY OF A CURRENT THAT MAKES US SUSPENDED, WE CLOSE AND OPEN OUR EYES A LITTLE WITH THE FEAR OF DYING, A LITTLE WITH THE FEAR OF LIVING. WHO ARE THE SHIPWRECKED... THE SHIPWRECKED ARE ALL OF US WHO LIVE WITH THE IDEA OF THE BREAK OF SOMETHING SOLID THAT MAKES US ALIVE, WITH THE FEAR OF MOVING AWAY FROM A STEADY ELEMENT THAT IS SINKING, AND WE, WHO SEE IT DISAPPEAR FROM AFAR, TRY TO BREATHE AND EMERGE, DISAPPOINTED, FRAGILE AND INTERRUPTED; SHIPWRECKED ARE THOSE WHO HAVE SEEN THE SKY THE LAST TIME AT THE MERCY OF THE SEA SPENT, FORCED TO FACE IT TO FIGHT, FLEE FROM WAR LADEN WITH EMPTINESS OR TO FULFILL THEIR MISSION; SHIPWRECKS ARE ALL THOSE WHO SURVIVE WITH THE DISTANCE AND THE UNBRIDGEABLE LACK OF SOMETHING THAT IS NO LONGER TERRESTRIAL, THAT WILL NEVER RETURN; WE AND THE SEA, THE SEA WE HAVE INSIDE, SO CLOSE AND SO IMPOSSIBLE TO AVOID.
THE FILM WAS INSPIRED BY THE NOVEL, EPONYMOUS, WRITTEN BY ETTORE GIACCARI.MY FILM IS INSPIRED, IN PARTICULAR, BY THE FIRST ACT OF THE TEXT WHICH TELLS OF A SHIPWRECK TO WHICH ONLY ONE MAN SURVIVES, A MISSIONARY, WHO WILL FIND HIMSELF REASSESSING HIS OWN BELIEFS AND LIVING WITH THE GUILT OF HAVING SURVIVED.THE FILM, LIKE ETTORE’S WORK, WANTS TO TELL THE STORY OF DEATH AND OUR FRAGILITY, REMEMBERING ALSO WHO REALLY HAS CEASED HIS LIFE PATH IN THE SEA; OF THE SEA AND DEATH I TRIED TO MAKE A SPACE EMPTY, LIGHT AND DECONTEXTUALIZED FROM REAL LIFE, AN INSTALLATION THAT TAKES ON THE MEANING OF A MONUMENT TO SHIPWRECKED PEOPLE.
EXTRA CREDIT 1ACTOR 1 (SURVIVED) CRISTIANO WOLAND BURGIO
EXTRA CREDIT 2ACTOR 2 (PERFORMER/ARTIST) ETTORE GIACCARI
EXTRA CREDIT 3ACTRESS 3 (CHILD) ARIANNA BETANCOURT
