Around the sleeping bodies, some presences occupy the architecture and move around the space in obscure activities: nothing of their actions is visible to us, except in the fragments in which the image shows itself under the flashlight. Monelle is a circular film without any narrative or hierarchy, without a beginning or an end, and it circumscribes a place of promiscuity and ambiguity between the different formats used—35mm and CGI animation—and the approaches of two opposites film attitudes—the structural cinema and the horror genre.

A family gathers around a bed to sing a lament to their own deaths, accompanied by a blackbird.

Video, CGI animation, color, sound, loop, 2018

The video is filmed in Medjugorjie, Bosnia, known for being place of the apparitions of the Virgin Mary and, nowadays, as an important destination of Catholic pilgrimage. Immersed into a stream of sound, pilgrims climb to the mountains, at the feet of statues. In front of these icons, they compose their thoughts in prayer; around them, slowly, it gets dark. In its cadence, Litania is a gradual fading to black of the frame.

Cameraless animation, fabric ink, permanent ink and scratches on 16mm clear film leader, color, silent, 5 loops of 10" each, 2015 Five short animated pieces conceived as loops, in which the first frame overlaps with the last one. Five nodding-offs; five heads shown in the moment of falling asleep and waking up again. The films are made by painting directly onto 16mm clear leader with fabric and permanent ink, then scratched with engraving needles.

La Gola (The Belly), Diego Marcon’s film commissioned by the Kunstverein in Hamburg, revolves around the correspondence between Gianni and Rossana. The two characters are portrayed by hyperrealistic dolls with digitally animated eyes and facial expressions. The combination of human voices, analogue dolls, and digital (post-)production brings forth hybrid characters whose status between analogue and digital defies clear distinction.

Filmed into the house of a hunter and clockmaker, the video is composed of a sequence of fixed frames pointed at the enormous number of images piled in his rooms: paintings, prints, photographs, little statues, knick-knacks. Through the use of a rigorous linear structure and a careful work on the sound, the video activates in the viewer an imaginative process able to reanimate each single image into a new, possible narration: the gaze is intended as a responsible act, as a powerful tool able to carve the real and to unfold its deepest dimension.

Inside a woodshed illuminated by an autumn dawn, a young boy is yodeling. Traditionally employed in the Central Alps to call the cattle back to the barns or to communicate with distant villages, Fritz’s yodel is instead a muffled call and a lugubrious requiem, accompanied by other voices coming back from nearby valleys and mountains.

A family composed of three generations of women live in an old house in the neighborhood of Ñuñoa. On one hand, Leonor must decide her future, on the other hand, Monica must decide if she sells the house in which they have lived their entire lives while Emilia, must face her Alzheimer’s disease.