credits.
within the traces | in b-w, stereo, 4:3 PAL | 6'38'' | © 2007 Bologna/Italy
with Giulia Casula | sound design by Carlos Sandoval & Astride Schlaefli | photography assistance: Fabio di Camillo and Ernesto Coschignano
text.
This video is about discovering the "seen" in the "unseen". How can we reveal an intangible intuition and transform the darkness into light? I filmed under water next to a light-house on the Italian Emilia-Romagna coast in absolute darkness. We used flashlights but on a dark beach it was not enough.
So I shot without being able to see, as if I had an "innocent" eye, guided by the power of the sea. During the editing phase I inverted the colors of the material, enabling me to "see" better and differentiate the volume and space made of lights and shadows.
screenings.
2013. La pantalla híbrida (The hybrid screen) curated by Andrea Franco, Fundación Luis Seoane in A Coruña/Spain
2012. Imagem Contato : Tactile Image curated by Kika Nicolela in collaboration with videoformes, Mostra de Imagem em Movimento in Sao Paulo/Brazil
2010. DA-International Digital Art Festival | National Academy of Art in Sofia/Bulgaria 2009. Kurye International Video Festival | Essence/Borders by International Art Expo in Istanbul/Turkey 2008. Devenir-écran curated by Oudeis | Le P'tit Comptoir in Le Vigan/France 2008. Videoformes 2008 – XXIIIrd International Video Art and Media Festival - off competition "Videothèque éphémère" | Clermont-Ferrand/France 2007. Transvizualia Festival007 Mediascream! - section Videodrom - curated by Malgosia Taraszkiewicz-Zwolicka | Gdynia/Poland 2007. VIDEO.IT con acqua senz'acqua - curated by Francesco Poli, Francesco Bernardelli and Mario Gorni | Accademia Albertina delle Belle Arti Turin/Italy