Via Campegna 58, Scala I, Interno 8, 80421, Napoli

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Via Campegna 58, Scala I, Interno 8, 80421, Napoli

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country:

Italy

year:

2024

film run:

78'

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colour

status:

Ready (22/10/2024)

In a house that once brimmed with life, objects now lie in quiet disarray, waiting to be touched for the last time. ThThese items, once overlooked in the rhythm of daily life, seem to have taken on a new weight, as if aware that their fifinal hour has come. Aftfter the passing of her parents, the director returns to the home where she was born and raised, a place that held her father’s last moments. It is here, within familiar walls, that she embarks on the silent and delicate task known as “decluttering of mourning,” where memory and labor intertwine.
ThThe act of clearing the house becomes a rite of passage, also for generations to come. ThThrough her hands, the material remnants of her parents’ lives transform into a form of immaterial inheritance that projects into the future. ThThe house in Naples, once a cornerstone of her existence, now becomes a distant echo, yet its legacy resonates through her daughters — where familial bonds are reconfifigured as a magnetic force that draws together across time and space.

Director's note

These possessions, once mere tools, have transformed into cherished “things,” each accumulating layers of personal signifificance over time. In this transition, they transcended their everyday function, becoming quiet companions in domestic life— stored in drawers or silently observing from high cabinets. As Remo Bodei notes, Things represent nodes and relationships with the lives of others, bridges connecting us to individual and collective stories, links of continuity between generations.” In the act of closing their parents’ home, children become the final witnesses to a world that, without their care, would fade into oblivion.