THE LIVING WARDROBE
Spain, USA | 2024 | 19 min | col.
During a residency in Bilbao, the film director gets hold of a large wardrobe. He begins to fill it at the pace of each new sentimental relationship, with clothes belonging to other people piling up after every night spent with someone. They occupy more and more space, a presence that seems to multiply and besiege the filmmaker. Inanimate, apparently trivial artefacts become tangible representations of contrasting emotions: protecting one’s identity, fear of getting lost and letting oneself go. The film is composed of precise – dry and sensitive – images that the filmmaker’s voice comments switching from the register of biography and everyday routine to a further plane: in a gesture of autofiction, Martí Madaula Esquirol explores the vertigo of nascent love, unveiling the most intimate and contradictory aspects of the leap in the dark that falling in love is. (m.m.)
Free Entrance
Local Time
- Timezone: America/New_York
- Date: 04 Nov 2024
- Time: 6:00
Location
- Cinema Astra - Piazza Cesare Beccaria, 9 50121 Florence (FI)
Organizer
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Martí Madaula Esquirol
Martí Madaula Esquirol holds a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona, a Master of Visual Arts from the LUCA School of Arts of Ghent and an MFA in Film and Video from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2019, he received the Extraordinary Prize of Fine Arts (University of Barcelona). In 2021, he was awarded a prestigious “la Caixa” Foundation fellowship to study in the US.
