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.

A minha esposa Helena tinha cinco anos quando a Guerra do Kosovo começou em fevereiro de 1998. Ela e a sua família foram obrigadas a fugir das suas casas enquanto os soldados sérvios varriam os espaços rurais, massacrando os albaneses e destruindo as suas terras. Ditët e Luftës é uma reflexão sobre essas experiências de guerra e deslocamento.

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.