Quantum

This short film, directed by Flatform, an Italian collective active between Milan and Berlin, frames a typical Italian mountain landscape, shown as a miniature. Starting with a static shot, the work winds between reality and fiction. Real-life footage is subjected to the complex post-production work which characterizes the group’s visual poetics. The scene’s animation consists of luminous strips that stream from reflectors which suddenly light up, isolating and framing different portions of the same scene, as happens in the theater. Further lightplay comes from the windows of the dwellings, which help create a sense of expectation and disorienation in the viewer. The sounds of nature, and of a marching band playing an instrumental version of Puccini’s famous aria Nessun Dorma–with the lyrics in subtitles – become the scenery’s soundtrack.