registro.log 

2020
Single channel HD video, colour, sound, 3’29’’


registro.log is a short film that stems from research on memory, linked interactions and the materiality of digital traces. Its starting point is the analysis of chatlogs from personal messaging systems created in the spring of 2020. A window, its elements and its surroundings are elected as a place of contemplation, contact point between the self and the other, shown along the natural recorded sounds from the outside world.

Coinciding with early pandemic strict lockdown in northern Italy, the exchanged messages offer a window into how, despite physically bound, reality - or even, realities - can transcend, through the digital and beyond. Despite the peculiar and specific time frame that acted as a starting point, the film doesn’t reference specific elements from that period; but rather, it concentrates on its material qualities: both of the real window (the glass, the curtain, the reflections) and of a rich database of chatlogs. And, rather than underlining contrasts within this dualism, it’s an observation of their coexistence.

Somewhere between these two realms - the physical and the digital, the body standing and filming by the window and the voice expressed through text only - something else might emerge.