Oltremare

Oltremare
Oltremare

1985, Italia, 16mm, colour, silent, 9 min.

I was interested in giving light back its intensity, which can even be blinding at certain points of the day, in the same way as the luminosity, the intensity of the objects, of bodies, of landscapes, of their essence: their colours. The filters highlight the dominants, yellow, red, blue around which the images condense. I also wanted to record and reproduce the movements of exploration, of research, of pleasure and of desire. The camera traced the pathway of the gaze without interruption: the editing was done directly in the camera. As well as this, I wanted to trace out the places, the atmospheres with the eyes "after", as if they observed the memory I was creating. The gaze chose what the memory would be.

Giovanna Puggioni