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interno giorno

The concpet

Exterior Day Interior Night is an experimental short film that can also be used as an installation. The title is a play on words with clear references to cinema screenwriting but it can also be construed as a metaphor for a psychic state: it is dark outside but there is light inside. Having said this, I left it to the four individual words to describe this film by omitting punctuation to “free” them. Each word becomes a key word of this story. This is the story of a man who has reached rock bottom. The need to resolve his existential crisis leads him to make a radical choice. The narration, although important, is only a pretext for my personal search for the use of images and video as means of communication.

The video was shot as if I were in a jam session, i.e., each scene was improvised. It was like painting on an empty canvas without a predefined storyboard. The main task for me as director was that of tuning in with the actor by making sure he met his character. Before that, though, I had to be in sync with the observer i.e., myself, in a space and at a time that are not those of the streets of Turin in 2010. Space and time now refer to the story: a snapshot of a moment, a window on the life of a man. Thus, I somehow became an invisible actor.

Exterior Day Interior Night is therefore an experiment about my own personal approach to the use of images. I based my work on my perception of circumstances, of the here and now. I also based it on listening to space and time without filters and on my body and my senses, the way I translated this perception.

Thanks to this exercise and by always keeping in touch with the rational part that runs parallel and keeps track of the creative side, a creative flow can be achieved. This flow enables the creation of something that we, who create it, are not fully aware of, but become its spectators when it is finished.
In particular, the fundamental idea of this video was to experiment and study the actor’s body, its role and the possibilities it has within a circumscribed space.