original title:
Recomaterna
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country:
Italy
year:
2023
film run:
10'
format:
colour
status:
Ready (07/09/2023)
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Chiara, a 10-year-old girl, throws a stone at her little brother. Frightened, she runs away and hides at grandma Enza's house; to distract her, the woman will tell her a ghost story revealing an important truth.
DIRECTOR’S NOTES:
This film is a dedication to childhood, a wonderful and terrible age at the same time, a period inextricably linked to the figure of grandparents. I was lucky enough to have them present for most of my life, and one of them in particular was a fundamental presence for my training. This little film tells exactly that period, and the special relationship that a little girl has with her grandmother, so intense that it crosses time and space. Grandma Enza's house is the true protagonist of the film and her experience pervades the whole story; it is the furniture, the photos, the rope and the clothespins, the walls, the smell of the house that evoke the grandmother and memories associated with her. Lucia's senses transmute the environment bringing it back to the aspect it had when it was inhabited by her grandmother: therefore there are no apparitions of ghosts but the connection between different temporal spaces caused by the materialization of memories.