G.U.I.D.A. is a travel film that delves into the individual memory, for the conservation of the intangible heritage of places.
In this project I was asked by a local cultural foundation to tell the story of the small town where I live, together with the musicians of the audiovisual collective we founded. The big question was: how to tell in a different way a place as wild as full of history, so as not to fall into the clichés of mass tourism?  So I try to imagine Balsam, a foreign visitor, came by chance in a city of stone, shaped by fatigue and water. Following a dream he begins to seek the "genius loci" (the spirit of the place"), eventually discovering a land much closer to his home than he thought.

Produced by: Cricket Productions and Bloodynose
Written and directed by Massimiliano Cosi
Actors: Balsam Asfur, Donato Laborante
Extras: Carmine Calia, Elisabetta Cappiello, Angelo D'addario, Giuseppe Digennaro, Mariateresa Demarinis, Angela Gismundo, Michele Marrulli, Valentino Pugliese, Pasqua Tedesco
Cinematography: Massimiliano Cosi
Editing and Grading: Massimiliano Cosi
Sound technician-Foley artist: Francesco Leoce
MUA: Lara Pellicano
Art Director: Massimiliano Cosi
Radio-Synth design: Andrea Toriello
Warrior's Helmet-Sword: Michele Navedoro
Aphrodite's dress: Atelier Lucia Santeramo
Aphrodite's crown: Rosa Matera, Roberto Prisciandaro
Aphrodite's jewelry: Akiram Jewelry
Voiceover: Balsam Asfur
Voiceover text: Massimiliano Cosi
Original Soundtracks: "Seven Rooms" by Gaio Ariani, "Conversation with a stone" by Carmine Calia
Sound Design and Sound Editing: Francesco Leoce

G.u.i.d.a.

2.35:1 Anamorphic / Color / 3min 10sec. / ITA, 2021
A PROJECT BY Silvia Ronzano
PRODUCED BY Bloodynose
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Massimiliano Cosi
CHOREOGRAPHY AND DANCING Silvia Ronzano
ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK Carmine Calia
MUA Grazia Lombardi
INDOOR VENUE Officine Culturali “Peppino Impastato”, Gravina in Puglia (BA)

Tèmenos is the sacred enclosure in which we guard (or hide) our securities, so that they are not attacked by factual reality. A space that we used to attend only on special occasions, but which with the pandemic we have had to force more often, in search of protection from the unknown, for immediate answers. We transformed it into a space for forced sharing, in which the relational sphere, based on the unpredictability of meetings, had to adapt to the fixed appointment of the videocall and the tired informality of chats. The sacred enclosure, under the guise of the comfort zone, has turned into an electromagnetic field, making us want more than a return to social normality, a transition to natural asceticism. But it will not be taken for granted to find balance in this new condition.  The individual scenario is then superimposed on a collective, cultural one. The sacred enclosure of art has been abandoned, like a theater from which everyone had to flee at the sound of a siren, interrupting whatever action they were carrying out. The artist, the only survivor, just has to take this opportunity to free himself from the meshes of marketing and the audience, returning to the dialogue with the primordial spectator, Nature. Again, it will not be easy to take the first steps in such a rarefied atmosphere.

Tèmenos

The end of a long love affair impels Luis to return to his path towards priesthood. But nothing more powerful in nature than love, leaves a heart without deep wounds in its aftermath.  So, on the morning of his consecration, Luis is alone in church and while reflecting on the nature of certain bonds, he decides to get naked (literally), returning to the mental space of the disaster where his relationship with Marion is kept: a huge heap of scrap shattered into debris scattered across the snow. The viewer's gaze moves inside the torn up booths, in each of which a scene from their past together is set. One booth after another, in a long sequence of shots, the camera takes us towards the reasons for the decision to separate.A strange travel companion – a fox, keeps his eye on him, out of the wreck and from a distance. By examining the remains of love, one is able to discover hidden truths and unexpected answers, beyond the understanding of common feeling.   

Remains Of Love

A man on his way out does not resign seeing the memories of his one true love disappear. A love lost for an unforgivable mistake. Entrenched in a time tower, it relives the moments spent with the beloved, without however being able to give them phisicality, tangibility. All that remains is a shower of ink on yellowed paper. A last heartbreaking fight against oblivion, with which, however, he wishes to leave a mark, redefine the contours of an immortal feeling: a liberating ablution turning into pain of loss and joy of finding one other.

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