Diario per un fiume 2021-2023

Dreaming about Venezia 77.

La Piave is an attempt to describe the Piave river and its surroundings as a character in constant change. Each chapter shows a different research session in which the landscape is analyzed in its structure through individual shots, thus forming a naturalist mosaic that accounts for the different conformations of the territory over the years. This first part collects the documentation of the place made by me between 2017 and 2021, as well as a couple of found footage sequences.

To search. To remember and to search. To remember and to find. To search and to find again. In the labyrinth of the mind, the only way to find is to get lost in the limbo and start again from oneself.

Devoured images.

A collective act of caring over the course of one night.

A trip along the beach of the Venice Lido.

An exploration of the human body in the age of the internet through hundreds of Youtube clips.

From 1947 to 1969, the U.S. Air Force carried out a systematic study of unidentified flying object (UFO) sightings, codenamed “Project Blue Book.” Thousands of reports from American and European citizens were recorded during those years; more than 700 cases remained “unidentified.” The film reuses original documents from the now-declassified project, superimposing them over family footage from the same period. In the encounter between the domestic and the scientific, the familiar and the alien, a hidden portrait emerges of a nation haunted by its own astronomical obsessions.

This is not a flicker film.

An old woman relives her life through words.

A weeping for a forest, a weeping for a river.

Bodies in spaces and the search for emptiness.

A man in crisis, disappointed by others and by himself.

23 days of waiting, boredom and light.

Experimental documentary on fog.

Halfway between a video installation, a performance and an in situ work, Il carbonasso was created starting from the discovery and intense exploration of a hidden and isolated place near the Piave river. The video consists of a series of long and fixed shots in which it is possible to perceive a mysterious and elusive creature. Observation soon becomes contemplation and meditation in which the gaze is lost in the image in search of the enigmatic presence. The title of the work and the name of the (non) protagonist derive from the dialectal name of the rat snake, a very common non-poisonous snake near water courses.