A group of people sleep standing up with their heads down. Light appears and disappears. People wake up. They look around, looking for a source of light. They return to their original position and sink back into sleep. The light appears and disappears. People wake up, look around and fall asleep. The light reappears and disappears. People wake up again, look around again and fall asleep again. Light appears but does not disappear. People are starting to walk towards the light. The film Beyond the Horizon is a metaphorical story about the eternal human search for the meaning of one's existence and one's place in the world, as well as the states and situations that individuals and society go through during that search.
A personal story set against the backdrop of the 1980 Irpinia earthquake, narrated by a father to his son. This event becomes a universal paradigm for exploring the story of those who were forced to leave their homes and migrate. People are intrinsically linked to places, and these places hold the memory of those who inhabited them.
Elena rediscovers after a long time the notebook of her maternal grandmother, Laura. She flips through it for the first time and through those pages revises her life. Convinced of a confession that Laura had made to her, namely that if one has a great desire then it should be whispered and entrusted to the paper of a notebook for it to come true, as a child she had immediately started writing. Today, at the age of 25, Elena no longer remembers her past wish, but she has a new one: to remember Laura.
A collapsing cave on a caving expedition turns into a death trap for a group of girls and boys who are exploring it. Trapped in the bowels of the earth and shrouded in darkness, the group is forced to take a grisly count: some must be eaten in order for the others to survive.
A strange figure wanders inside a building: he presses elevator buttons, but each floor always promises the same landscapes of hallways, dark rooms, and a portrait of a woman with a cathedral background. The images intertwine until space becomes a mere illusion.
Looking for a way out... On the other side of the daily grind of modern life... Is there still some message to be heard? Will we succeed or remain disconnected?
The Thing Is Lost is an abstract audiovisual experience inspired by the ever monotonous, oppressive and omnipresent existence of inner dialogue. This film is an emotional journey through expressions, confusions, colors and affections. A journey in the hope of “finding” or “being found.”
From a horizontal line (a trail?, a border?, a horizon?) unravel stories, divisions, violence, escapes, as the sweet melody of Narrow Line by Mama's Broke sheds tears of pessimism and disillusionment.
The film was created in relation to a musical improvisation project in which Antonello Salis, Sandro Satta, Mark Dresser, and Massimo Carrano participated. The work is based on abstract animations made with various techniques directly on 35mm cinema film that are interspersed with live action sections that creatively document the stages of the jam session.
31 animated sequences that reveal isolated, tangential actions around the sacrifice of an animal during a rural celebration in Colombia. These sequences construct a narrative that aims to create a void, a system in which the different scenes function as echoes around an uncertain and disturbing event, linked to the latent image of a destroyed body.
The incessant repetition of courtesy gestures: thus echoing the oppressive hypocrisy of the suit-and-tie working world, the assembly line of communal capitalist living, an asphyxiating echo chamber. A microcosm in 4 sets of 11 sheets of paper with hand-drawn animated cycles.
In a future where pollution has devastated their planet, GGS, a brave robot explorer, embarks on an exciting intergalactic adventure in search of a new home for his species.
At nightfall, a lost young hiker spots an isolated house in the heart of a Québécois forest. An unexpected refuge… or so he believes. For within this home lives a hostile being, and it’s almost seven o’clock.