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Director's Statement
At Re-framing Home Movies, Cineteca Sarda's residency in Cagliari, I went over private amateur film archives which were, for the most part, never been used.
When I completed the selection, I started working on the archival founds, narrowing it down to around thirty for my film. Some time after, while reading Annie Ernaux's "The Years" I found the perfect story for the audio and visual score I was costructing.
The selection of some fragments of this text, pushed me towards adding a voice that became key for the narration and also to film, myself, some sequences in Super 8 film, from an imaginary present archive.
Then, I started working on what appeared as a real vertigo, not time but its imagination: what it means to feel it, to give it life, to feel all time that has been and that is now and that will be. And on adult life's privilege to assist to the running out of days, without any nihilism or any resentment.
The voice and images form a representation of a vibrant scenery that develops new meanings. Bodies and shadows, small objects and landscapes from the past compose the verses in the story of a life, like a renewed promise, placed in the exchange between archive and words: “All the things she has buried as shameful and which are now worthy of retrieval, unfolding, in the light of intelligence. As her memory is gradually freed of humiliation, the future again becomes a field of action” (A.Ernaux)