Per ogni nostra diffrazione notturna(For each of our nocturnal diffraction)

2021
Single channel 4K video, colour, sound, 9’33’’


Short film that explores fragments of a circumscribed ecological setting surfacing as dreamlike visions during a series of repeated nocturnal explorations. These scenes, flashlight-aided and AI-enhanced, reveal the blending and intra-acting of observed and observing presences in a frenzy of particles that coexist, everlasting, each night.

It stems from research on material interconnections, and in particular from the exploration of a place - a place I lived in for 11 years, and which I consider my hometown in Italy - the agricultural environment along the Adda river; and from a conception of this place as a system that welcomes within itself a coexistence of different yet interconnected entities.

This investigation was carried out through a series of frequent nightly walks in the area that continued for over five months, as I slowly learned how to inhabit the environment in a way that made my presence known but not overwhelming. The soundtrack features a rework of the ambient sounds from the original footage and my own vocal tics. 
The filming process was for me a balancing act between different presences. Instead of installing cameras, I decided to be physically there. The animals in the area are not used to humans, and they will run and hide as soon as they hear you approaching. That meant learning how to walk, and film, slowly and silently; to be almost absent in order to record a presence.