The Flash

original title:

The Flash

italian title:

Flash

directed by:

cast:

Malcom Adams, Venetia Bowe, Mariia Prochukhan, Peter Kern

cinematography:

Alexsandar Ramadanovic

set design:

costume design:

Peter Kern

music:

Dante Majorana, Sal Otnap

production:

country:

Italy

year:

2023

film run:

18’19”

format:

HD - colour

aspect ratio:

16:9

status:

Ready (02/04/2023)

festivals & awards:

  • Triloka International Filmfare Awards 2023
  • Future of films Awards 2023

Malcom and Venetia are Irish, Mariia Iranian, Olga Georgian, Antony German, Shashi Russian, Sicilian crowd, all others cannot be located as we filmed them in many different locations.
Malcom's search for events, places, sounds, chatter is the fulcrum of this photoplay; it's not easy for him to put everything in order among hundreds of photos that become memories. Sometimes the flash has helped him, but often the images get confused, turning into questions. Meanwhile Venetia tells us about herself making sure Malcom doesn't hear her.
Memories, nostalgia, lust are not always effective tools for understanding, but in our story we try to chase them. We filmed mainly in James Joyce's Sandymount Strand and many other places in the surrounding area, collected sounds and voices in different countries, to discover with him what is hidden in the dark boxes of our characters' stories

DIRECTOR'S NOTES:
Memory is a complex system. We are used to think of it as a straight line and the phases of the moon allowed us to invent the calendar to establish our "when". Yet time is always subjective.
Events, experiences and memories have little to do with straight lines or calendars. They often get confused, mixed up becoming a skein of cables and it's not easy to put them in order.
In this story we tried to chase them to allow our protagonist to understand what is happening and what will happen once he finds an order. He is a photographer, he loves light, it is his main tool. But we're not sure he'll be able to get what he's looking for.