Medea

Medea

2017 · 3 min

Medea is made with a particularly complex procedure: encaustic painting on vitrified film. The result is an alchemical work that lives on matter and light, a cinematic-pictorial jam session that blends perfectly well with jazz improvisation, a work specifically created from evocative metaphorical compositions that deftly evoke a magmatic and crystallized reality.

Directed by Leonardo Carrano

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