Country: Italy, USA
Year: 2018
Duration: 10'
Utilizing fragments of early educational films and animation, the piece develops a science fiction counter-narrative of subjugation and annihilation told from a non-human perspective. A tale of conquest and destruction.
Biography
film director
Alessia Cecchet
(Feltre, Belluno, Italy) graduated from the University of Bologna with a degree in film studies. She completed her practical training in filmmaking at Syracuse University, New York, USA. She is pursued a PhD at the University of California Santa Cruz and her thesis Salvate il soldato Donald. Cinema di animazione di propaganda americana durante il secondo conflitto mondiale has won the Franco La Polla Prize at the 2013 Future Film Festival. With her shorts Onikuma (2016), Il sentire dell’occhio (2017) e WWW (the whale who wasn’t) (2018) partecipate at Italiana.Corti competition at Torino Film Festival.
FILMOGRAFIA
Psycho-Drama (cm, 2014), Cold Fish (cm, 2015), Onikuma (cm, 2016), Il sentire dell’occhio (cm, 2017), WWW (the whale who wasn’t) (cm, 2018), Big(foot) Love (cm, 2019), Balaena (cm, 2022).
Declaration
film director
“Human exceptionalism is one of the main reasons the safety and well-being of the Earth and its inhabitants are threatened […]. This film is an effort to look at the situation from a non-human perspective in order to look back and take responsibility. I have always found old educational films so rich in terms of the discourse they create around proper behavior […]. For this reason I decided to cut together these films in an effort to repurpose their visuals and tell a different story, one of extreme measures and resistance.”
Cast
& Credits
regia, montaggio/director, film editing
Alessia Cecchet
suono/sound
Joshua Dean Tuthill
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contatti/contacts
Alessia Cecchet
filmandfibers@gmail.com
Alessia Cecchet
suono/sound
Joshua Dean Tuthill
**
contatti/contacts
Alessia Cecchet
filmandfibers@gmail.com
