Alessandra Breviario

Since he was a child, Orpheus has imagined stories about an abandoned villa across the street from his house. A solitary and visionary pianist, during an evening at the Polypus — the club where he plays — he meets Eura’s gaze. An unconditional love blossoms between them, but she’s concealing a secret. Then she disappears. One evening, Orpheus sees her enter a small door on Via Saterna, in front of the villa. He follows her. Before the threshold, he encounters the Green Man, an enigmatic figure who seems to know the mysteries of that passageway. Once through the door, Orpheus enters a visionary afterlife...

The film results from the need to document states of altered perception of reality, reflecting its purely constructed quality. It translates junctures of personal experiences into sequences of images, presenting a vision of the real as a pure fabrication of the mind; a succession of visions and sound suggestions that cyclically intersect to then crumble and dissolve. The choice of super 8 introduces us to the dimension of the everyday life, where observations of reality and reinterpretations of it are intertwined with stop motion animations. The resulting images seem enveloped in an aura of timelessness, in continuous oscillation between the suspension and dilation of space.