Part 1 of 2. Our journey begins in tranquil ephemera, then evolves into broken reality.

Soundtrack by: koas
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Chapter Three: You Can Never Go Home is an excerpt from an original live 16mm film projection with additional 8mm projected as an overlay. Each installment is performed live without prior rehearsal.

Chapter One can be seen here: vimeo.com/30712825
Chapter Two can be seen here: vimeo.com/35180414
Chapter Three [part 2] can be seen here: vimeo.com/50177007

"And now, because you have known madness and despair, and because you will grow desperate again before you come to evening, we who have stormed the ramparts of the furious earth and been hurled back, we who have been maddened by the unknowable and bitter mystery of love, we who have hungered after fame and savored all of life, the tumult, pain, and frenzy, and now sit quietly by our windows watching all that henceforth never more shall touch us - we call upon you to take heart, for we can swear to you that these things pass.”
― Thomas Wolfe

NEW LANDS a film in Super8 (2009-2012)
Opera by: Bennet Pimpinella
Cinematography: Alessandro Chiodo
Soundtrack: Justice
Format: Shoot in Film Super 8

Synopsis:
Cross, performance, erotism, madness, scratch running into the vital space of people that you meet in the street. For 90 seconds.
The man (Bennet) holds the cross that is a transitory element, the fulcrum of the quick and drifting relation between the performer and the people passing by.
The dynamics of the exchange is sudden but at the same time invasive, the man makes a sign on nude bodies that show themselves to the camera. Then it leaves them. Later takes them back, one after another, scratching them on the film, again and again.
The cross lands on the nude skin freeing the female body from a secular repression, or signs the skin and body thus becoming a gesture of self-censorship against a sexual liberty that is too ostentatious.
The people in the street curiosly watch, taking part of the growing excitement, palpable, that preceeds the movement.
The erotism becomes sublime during the preparation, at the moment the individual collects the provocation, accepting to become the main character of a game with parts that are not defined.

2012
16mm
Filmed on the Optical Printer

A music video filmed on Tri-X super 8mm film and painted with FW Acrylic Ink.

Soundtrack by:
koas
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Chapter Two: Midwinter is the second installment in a series of live performances. Each installment is performed live without prior rehearsal.
Chapter One can be seen here: vimeo.com/30712825