Country: Italy
Year: 2022
Duration: 25'
Finite Eyes was filmed in isolation during the first European Covid-19 lockdowns, april 2020, in the Swiss alpine region of Grischün. The film attempts to represent the gap intrinsic to a liminal reality: the gap between time and lack thereof, between stillness and change, between life within and life beyond physical and mental boundaries. Visual and conceptual imaginations are the tools employed to circuit within such space: to bridge it, tighten it, and expand it.
Biography
film director
Clemente Ciarrocca
(Rome, Italy, 1994) lives and works in Los Angeles. He is a multimedia artist and writer working through installation, text, video, sound, sculpture, and drawing. His work sublimates in film and explores performativity.
FILMOGRAFIA
Cheeriah Zeroth: The Edge (cm, 2021), The Road from the Studio (cm,2022), Molten Glass Drips Like Honey (cm, 2022), Untitled (Swans) (cm, 2022), Finite Eyes (cm, 2022), Na to Thimase (cm, 2022), Meanwhile (cm, 2022).
Declaration
film director
“The title of the film is borrowed from a line of Emily Dickinson’s poem Before I Got My Eye Put Out, which I first encountered in March 2020, and which inspired the making of the film. The poem spoke to me of the self- environment relationship as a sort of miraculous, inverse process of birth: delivery as reception. One has what one has given. This idea touched me deeply at a time when I was struggling to understand, to move, to reach, basically, to live, in the world around me. It inspired me to react. I started observing and listening to what surrounded me, letting it fill me. I set up my camera, sketched a fluid script, and began filming”.
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR, SCREENPLAY: Clemente Ciarrocca. SOUND: Giangiacomo Gallo. CAST: Delia Gonzalez, Olivia Schüler-Voith. PRODUCTION: Maschinn.
CONTACT:
Clemente Ciarrocca - clementeciarrocca@alum.calarts.edu