Giuseppe Boccassini
2021La notte salva
Giuseppe Boccassini
“La notte salva” (The night of nature) is a path of sensations that attempts to gather around its nature without revealing it, without opening itself to any human language. Rather, as an animal’s night call, it exists vanishing in its own closure and muteness. The film reestablishes itself onto its state of unsolved, lost and forgotten space, as a word without name, experiencing itself as a simple gesture, dreamily suspended through its own electric tension, far from any sort of destination, salvation, redemption.
The Saved Night
As In A Land, A Vagary
Giuseppe Boccassini
As adjustments between images rather than within them, the film roams provissorialy along the hidden folds of things, through which it slips systematically. Phagocytized by its surroundings, the film vanishes within everything that seems to be alive around it. Staring at the horizon, yet landing on the surface, such metamorphoses do not necessarily concern the intimate nature of things, out of respect for that curios dualism which somehow distinguishes them unconditionally as vague and singular cosmologies.
As In A Land, A Vagary
Lunar Studies
Giuseppe Boccassini
- Study•ies (n.) From c. 1300 as "a state of deep thought or contemplation, of the not-yet-so-opaque, mental perplexity or anxious thought, amazement, wonder or reverie" - Lunar (adj.) from Latin lunaris "of the moon," Luna "moon" from the greek word "Lùnca" same root of Lux and leuk, a proto-Indo-European root meaning "light, brightness."
Lunar Studies
Eidola
Giuseppe Boccassini
The objects continually send in the space around them the images of themselves. These images, called “edola”, go into the eye – by the pupil – so that they can reveal themselves. The air is full of no material images that fly in every direction. The objects constantly send images of themselves, as the snakes lost their skin when they grow up. A sort of perpetual transformation seems to be the ultimate characteristic of the bodies. And the air is constantly crossed by these ghosts, thin transparent coverings”. Democrito
Eidola
Obsceno
Giuseppe Boccassini
Obscene opens and closes in the shadow of an old 35 mm film in black and white, where the mind of a man is crossed by an eye looking at the screen, which fades inside it at the end of the movie. The deconstruction has been made through the use of a MiniDv camera, which shoots some porn movies, focusing exclusively on some anatomical details. During the shoot, super 8 and 35mm amateur old movies have been used and their frames were physically overlapped to the optics of the camera, determining the transparency of color and brightness. Other analogical filters, such as magnifying and distorting ones, old lenses of cameras, cardboard tubes and plastic, glass jars and colored plastics have been used. This technique follows the obscene in a less recognizable physical space, towards abstraction.
Obscene
Temple of Truth
Giuseppe Boccassini
Temple of Truth is an archive that constantly ambulates amid tangles of decaying worlds, ex-perienced as petrified, deprived, residual traces, preserving in the process of taking along and transforming itself, a magmatic state, a specific, ancestral, sometimes whitish non-space. A liveliness of half-alive bodies , both human and animal, that catch fire in a latent bullfight and which, in becoming persōnae, inhabit sarcophagi which crumble into solid ground like streams of water that suddenly submerge clouds, swinging on the brink of a vertiginous fall of nocturnal glances in the middle of exotic poses and aerial visions.
Temple of Truth
Orbit
Giuseppe Boccassini
Extremely loud and incredibly close. Orbit brings back images for a far-off era, made of spatial conquests and scientific discoveries, testimony to the fascinations and dreams of the human species before September 11th, 2001. In 15 minutes Orbit leads us through a hallucinatory tunnel where time and space merge together.
Orbit
