The «Carlo Colla & Figli Puppet Company» is one of the most ancient and famous puppet companies in the world. The Company’s Atelier in Milan houses more than three thousand puppets. Each has a face, a body and specific characteristics, which makes it unique.
«Diteggiatura» recounts, in a reverse chronology, a year spent in the Atelier of the Colla Company, following the rituals of a community called upon to accompany the life of anthropomorphic objects.
The film is based on a text, performed by actress and director Silvia Costa and written by an artificial neural network.

DIRECTOR'S NOTES:
"Your feet are bound with white cloths, and your hands are bound behind your back. A mask covers your face, and you are placed on a stage, alone".
The film begins with this quote. I chose it for two reasons.
First of all, because it is the point of view of a puppet - a non-human being in front of an audience composed of humans.
And then, because it wasn’t written by a human being, but by a machine. More specifically, it was written by a text generator based on an artificial neural network that, starting from a textual input, is able to produce a text of any length, on any topic.
It seemed fitting that a film about the Colla puppets - machines built to move like human beings - should be written by a text generator - a machine built to write like a human being.