avant la nuit

Avant la nuit, 2013
[Before night falls]
HD, stereo, 2'53''

A prison at the centre of Europe. Sunset: that time of the day when everything seems possible. 

Before night falls prisoners are called out by their identification numbers. 

The combination of voices create a new space, far and near at the same time. 

Sound is the only perceptible witness of these lives, it crosses a physical border between the inside of a room and the outside, between what is close to touch and what is inaccessible. 

"Avant la nuit" portrays a routine, that we discover as the prison’s mechanical practice.

Awards:
First Prize of the Jury, Festival Cinema Zero, Trento, IT, 2013

First Prize of the Jury, A corto di donne, Pozzuoli (Naples), IT, 2014

Screenings:

- Festival Cinema Zero, Trento, IT, 2013

- Filmando a Figuralia, Bologna, IT, 2013

- The 10th Berlin International Directors Lounge [DLX], Berlin,DE, 2014

- A corto di donne, Pozzuoli (Naples), IT, 2014

- 27th EMAF- European Media Art Festival, Osnabrueck, DE, 2014

- Ethnocineca- Ethnographic and Documentary Filmfest Vienna,  Wien, Austria, 2014

- 32nd Valdarno Cinema Fedic, San Giovanni Valdarno, IT, 2014

- 30th International Hamburg Short Film Festival, Hamburg, DE, 2014

- 4840 FRAMES Festival, Vöcklabruck, Austria, 2014

- 13th International Kansk Video Festival. Kansk, Russia, 2014

- Okseø Filmfestival, Hamburg, DE, 2014

-10th  Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, Berwick, UK, 2014

- Vilnius Film Short, Vilnius, Lithuania, 2014

- Proyector International Videoart Festival, Madrid, Spain, 2014

- Human Rights Film Festival of Barcelona / NYC / Paris, 2014

- Compilation of highlights of the 10th Berlin International Directors Lounge @Contemporary Art Ruhr Essen, DE, 2014

- 31 Kasseler Dok Fest, Kassel,DE, 2014

- Film Festival System D, Brussels, BE, 2014

- VIDEOFORMES: Festival d'Art Video et Cultures Numériques, Clermont-Ferrand, France, 2015

- FESTIVAL CINE DERECHOS HUMANOS AECID,Lima, Peru, 2015

- Short Screens #48 @Millenium Festival, Brussels,BE, 2015

- Magmart International Videoart Festival, Naples, IT, 2015

- 15 Festival Cinéma Méditerranéen, Brussels, BE, 2015

- Eurovideo Festival Européen des arts vidéo, Liège, BE, 2018

-Urban Cinema 2018, Brussels, BE, 2018

- Ca' Foscari Short Film Festival - Lo sguardo sospeso - Venice, IT, 2020