Fabio Scacchioli

The colors, the music, the old Hollywood stars and the surprising editing of archival images remind us that if life isn't a joke, maybe cinema can be. And if it's short, so much the better

A degenerated melodrama, that claws away at the high gloss of Hollywood’s classic movies to expose the raw emotional, political and aesthetic tensions that are at the heart of cinema.

Video for Giorgio Tuma's song "Sitting on the little church steps", from the album "In the morning we'll meet"

Illusion for cinema is like dream for reality.

What unites Fred Astaire dancing in a choreography of volcanic eruptions, a ghost barrow comes from the sea, Nikola Tesla sodomized by a bolt from the blue, a maniac of the jugular veins of failure, a group of pin-ups just escaped from a maximum prison security, and the saddest shot in the cinema history? Too late for tears.

Miss Candace Hilligoss' Flickering Halo is a film about the interval simultaneously separating and uniting, the silence between words, the black between pictures. It is a film against the dialectical opposites in cinema, assembled according to the Heisenberg's uncertainty principle and the use of the phenomenon of retinal persistence as an expressive tool.

An hallucination after the storm. Shot in 8 mm, of the dark and disappearing roads scratched by lightning. The discovery that a village festivity is also possible in a puddle at night is both, terrible and sublime. Do the images drown and disappear in our memory, or are we drowning while the images observe us from an unreachable time?

Este cortometraje es sobre el tiempo, la vida, la muerte y la mirada. Consiste en cientos de fotografías, montadas en sucuencias de forma no lineal. El movimiento es una ilusión, como el tiempo. El acto de mirar es una ilusión también.

The film is here, but there isn't something to see, the most important remain invisible and uncertain. There is no truth to discover. The truth is always elsewhere.

short film by Fabio Scacchioli & Vincenzo Core