Le mani sulle nuvole (2021)

Hands above the clouds is a short subject arising from a surrealist, naive story. The inspiration is pictorial in nature: visually representing the ambivalent relationship that arises between the artist and her work, through a story in which it is the work that recounts itself. This gives life to a small, lyrical parable, in which the dreamy atmosphere serves as a background for two characters who in some way represent archetypes: mother and child, the artist and her creation. The narrative structure I have felt best for this tale is that of proceeding with a sort of "reverie," as if absorbed by long, wavering sequences in which anything can happen, and there is always the sky serving as the background for the immensity of the void. Bodies wander and oscillate, described by the camera which outlines shapes like a brush softly caressing faces. The ambivalent story is soft and tenuous as well: a love story born between the artist and her work, in a dimension in which everything - even dreaming with one's eyes open - is possible.