Luca Ferri
Italy
2014
83'
DCP, Blu-ray
Italian
83'
English, Italian
Luca Ferri
Giulia Vallicelli
Alberto Valtellina
Dario Agazzi
Angelo Signorelli, Sergio Visinoni, Andrea Zanoli
Abacuc is a man of nearly 200 kilos who spends his days in a sort of indifferent immobility, in the absence of any kind of emotion. He hangs out at graveyards, thematic "Italy in miniature" parks or near utopic architectures. He lives in a railroad inspector's house and he never speaks. The only voice we hear is a feminine voice-over. Abacuc, pulled out from his catastrophic solitude, picked up the unplugged phone, but the woman disguises herself and expresses herself through literary quotations. This will end up being a cul de sac, as Abacuc's existence itself, because she is actually his Doppelgänger. He lives inside rigorous structures and his existence is a sort of stuck symphony. Abacuc is a puppet with no audience, he acts the last possible pièce. Having survived the catastrophy, he is constantly living escaping from the Nothing. Abacuc stands for the need of the cinematographic art to die out and implode in itself. The film is shot on Super 8, the soundtrack is by Maestro Dario Agazzi.