Country: Italy
Year: 2005
Duration: 17'


Shooting with closed circuit cameras the film tells the story of a young woman, Saskia, lives in an industrial town. Her life is empty and depressing. She begins thinking about the idea of existence and consciousness. From that moment she will start to suffer from terrifying hallucinations, which will take her to a brutal suicide.
"Hate me, as a request towards ourselves, a kind of selfdestruction. This short film tells a story of self-destruction, not intended as a psychic pathology, but as something chosen intentionally. Saskia, the protagonist of this story, decided to live in a big industrial town and, in order to earn money to survey, she accepts, every day, several degradations and defeats, the most violent of which is loneliness […]. This project is developed on a criticism of contemporary life and of the consequent sensation of emptiness created in those who experience it every day. The story is written in a style inspired by Japanese manga, where demons live and operate in daily framework, as work or school." (K. Tassin)

Biography

film director

Kristoph Tassin

Kristoph Tassin, fiction director and feature film writer, developed his first works in the experimental cyberpunk background in Bologna in the Nineties, he experimented different visual formats even mixed. Essential for him were his documentary works and the investigation in the docufiction, genre where the border between reality and fiction rediscover the “dramaturgy of the ambiguous.” He lives in Milan from 1999 and is now developing several feature film, among them PAN-UROPA.  

FILMOGRAFIA

It’s Ok It’s Me (cm, 1998), Orario di apertura (mm, 2000), Perdue perro (2001), Al mukawama (video, 2003), Hate Me (cm, 2005).

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