DIRECTOR’S NOTES
Going around flea markets it is easy to find old photos. These often represent our last testimony of time on Earth, but nevertheless they are sold at very low prices without any sentimental value. Through ‘In Memory Of’ I wanted to deal precisely with this emotional ambiguity related to oblivion. I was fascinated by the ironic contrast that firmly links importance and irrelevance of a memory. When our very last photo disappears, it is like we physically never exisisted.

Based on this perspective, also my short film could be forgotten, destroyed or lost in time. For this reason, I wanted to study a process of breakdown of the video itself. In fact, everything is destined to corrupt and deteriorate, including the digital file of this short film during his playing time.

The great challenge was to find a new language regarding the alienated and distorted humanoid shapes that I got simply turning the focus ring. The resulting unfocused image was completely physical and concrete, although it represented something apparently abstract as a memory. The out of focus had to trasform from a classic medium of hiding to an original one of visualizing the fine line between what exists and what suddenly no longer exists.

Mattia Bioli