IN NESSUN LUOGO RESTA

The smoke comes out from the volcanic rock draws spirals; each time they are different, they change direction and dissolve formlessly. In the abandoned villages, only a few traces of a human presence remain, effigies, sculpted in a smile or depicted in a photograph. The bodies of antiquity have fallen asleep, those of the living wander aimlessly. In the end, they will meet up, for a moment, after following a tortuous path in search of what remains.

“In nessun luogo resta started as a short travel film about the Greek part of Calabria. I used a Super8 movie camera for the filming. I liked the idea of the physicality of the support on which the image could take all the time it needed to deposit itself, also capturing the unexpected (a few scratches are due to the film drive). I liked the idea that time could carve its own form. The goal was to search for the signs of continuity between nature and culture, that secret pact which seems to belong to the past and which reveals parts of itself to our eyes now, but in a state of entropy and decay.”