Forms: experimental video
Running Time:4’.11’’
Ratio: 4:3
Format: dvd pal

directed, written by Valentina Besegher
produced by Valentina Besegher
cinematography by Valentina Besegher
edited by Valentina Besegher e Alessandro Massobrio
music, sound by Alessandro Massobrio

Italy 2007

Johnny is a child. Johnny can't play the game, because everyone gets in his hair. It's just a matter of changing, of altering his own face. With a smiley face, he would be considerate of others. But there is a gap between the inside and the outside. Something like an ambiguity of the memory, which is a play that makes fun of us and fixes its rules through time and generations.

The social guidance films of the fifties are deconstructed and overlapped with authors’ super8 films and sound recordings, remarking the deafness which the communication imperative is in and the ambivalence of sound and sense in the human language. The speaking children slid down into a vortex of references and dreamlike analogies, while the music creates a crucial, deep, mental environment.

Screenings

ALTERNATIVE FILM VIDEO 2009
New film and video festival
from 09th - 13th December 2009
Novi Beograad / Serbia

7th TABOR FILM FESTIVAL
International Short Film Festival 2009
from 1st - 5th July 2009
Zabok/ Croatia

ISFF DETMOLD
International Short Film Festival 2009
4th - 7th June 2009
Hangar 21 Detmold / Germany