Alex Faoro

A young theology student assassinates a Napoleonic general. A head is discovered at the site of an ancient theater. A compendium of artifacts is transmuted unto the filmic plane.

In August of 1945 the director's great grandfather Giovanni Pietro Faoro, an Italian immigrant, drowned in the Harlem River - a result of undetermined circumstances. His body was discovered near the corner of East 127th street and what’s now Harlem River Drive.

Helena was five years old when the Kosovo War began in February of 1998. She and her family were forced to flee their homes as Serbian soldiers swept the countryside, massacring ethnic Albanians and destroying their land. «Days of War» is a meditation on these experiences of war and displacement.

Water runs under a bridge A church looms overhead A couple films each other on the shoreline Walking into a sea of chaotic filmic decay Super 8mm Kodachrome shot by my parents in 1985, and buried by myself in late summer of 2018.

The Melody of Decomposition is a non-narrative super 8mm film composed of footage Alex gathered over the course of eight months between 2017 and 2018. The different locations include a reservoir, for which Faoro has a particular lineal affection, a cemetery in the Bronx where his ancestors were buried, and a slaughterhouse in upstate New York. Consequently, the film explores themes of family, death and the loss of innocence. In doing so, it creates a concentrated rhythm and familiar cyclical pattern of movement; both of which result in a subconscious pursuit of the inevitable.