Film Commission Torino Piemonte

"You really opened the secret drawer!" So my father said to me in 2010 when I put a 1937 notebook full of poems from his youth under his nose. Since that time, I have done nothing but think that one day I would really open my father's drawers. In ancient Greece, next to Kronos, the flowing time, there is Kairos, the due time, the time when things happen because they are driven by necessity acting on our will. Leaving my father's library is the time of debt; the time of leaving is the time of knowledge. Transferring books, transferring memory. Being faced with this gift that life has given me, I am doing what I must do. I feel that I am questioning my craft, not only for the sake of cinema, but also to respond to what suddenly seemed to me to be a call. Making films with archive images is a gesture of sharing; retracing, repeating, elaborating, to see with other eyes what resonates in the memory of us all, sometimes without us realising it ourselves.