LIFE AS A WHITE PAPER (LIVING VIPASSANA)

India. Bombay and part of Maharastra. "Vipassana", a sort of alert dream where emotions are intense but at the same time distant, as if they are not yours. Movements without a certain reason, you can only follow that dream and try to talk about it, with the constant and creative sensation of being in front of a white page, in which everything is sensible and everything still has to be written...

 

I WAS A ROSE, I'LL BE A BUTTERFLY

HIV virus and then AIDS. The attempt of describing the period of time in which some people, becoming conscious of their illness, try to make peace with what was and what remains of their life, as in a sort of cocoon, to transform themselves in butterflies and fly away...

 

The visual tale of a journey, imaginary and concrete at the same time, through a couple of streets in a small town and through different cultures, uses and most of all peoples, exactly some families of refugees coming from all over the world. Starting from a short but deep nearness, from a shared humanity, a journey to find again the equality passing through the differences.

 

AS A BAYAYE

Uganda seen with the eyes of a "BAYAYE" (uprooted), swaili term that describes the millions of African people that leave the countryside to move towards cities, where unfortunately they can't find an arrangement. They are nothing else than crowd, chaos. They can't come back to their villages and they have nothing to do, they wander without a destination and without a reason, following the shadow and looking curios for everything...

 

I SHALL NOT WALK ALONE (Work in progress)

There are moments in our lives in which a look, a gesture or a smile impress us in a special way, indipendently of our likings or if we know the person or not. Many times we realize that we are inside this looks and smiles, with our qualities and defects, fears and indecisions, joyfulness and pains. Exactly for this reason we realize that we are not alone, whatever it is the direction that our life is taking...