IL SENTIRE DELL'OCCHIO

The concept of death through a post-humanist lens: how humans understand and perceive “the other,” the animal, which is transformed the moment it dies. We look away, we change direction and our wonder turns into aversion.

“The inspiration for this film came to me last year on the beach. […] One day, while reading, I discovered that I was sitting nearby a dead and headless corpse of a sea lion. Even after this find, I decided to stay and I started to pay attention to the people passing by, trying to figure out whether they were noticing the animal or not. Most of them did not […] but at some point a young woman noticed the sea lion and from my position I could see her reaction. She showed it to her partner and the expression on her face went through a range of emotions. First, a gigantic smile, the belief that she had found a mammal on the beach and, then, the horror in the realization that the animal was dead. In a very brief amount of time the transition between wonder and abject happened.”