WHEN THE SNOW WILL MELT

Director - Damiano Petrucci

Losing Truth (aka Damiano Petrucci) is a Multimedia Artist with more than 10 years in the world of photography and music. He graduated in “Electronic Music and Digital Audiovisual Composition” at “Conservatorio Licinio Refice” in Frosinone where he’s still studying electronic music, sound design and audiovisual art.

In the same year he won several awards around the world with his first experimental short films “Losing Truth” and “Disconnection Point”. He’s interested in the relationship between sound and pictures always avoiding an exclusively technological approach to art and making the art itself carry important themes and emotions.

Director’S Statement

This short film has been written as a stream of consciousness, the memory’s journey in the past, which consists of discontinuous flashes, is characterized by the elusiveness of our memories and the mistakes we make when we try to remember something.

So, the memory’s journey is associated to life’s journey: Spring represents the blooming of our memories, Summer is characterized by indifference and lightheartedness towards the memories we don’t seem to care about at the moment; Autumn as blurring and deterioration of memories and the consequent effort to revoke them, Winter as the end of the life cycle and the disappearing of our memories, but also as a new beginning with the bloom of another Spring.

In terms of audio and sound design, our memory has been compared to a recorder which is capable of writing our memories into a tape that can be threatened by the deterioration of passing time which will make it unlistenable. That’s why I have built a Max for Live device to degrade sounds and layering them in order to achieve a state of confusion.

The short was made from 2017 to 2020. Filming ended in November 2020 not without difficulty. The pandemic has in fact made everything more complicated due to the limited possibility of travel. I personally took care of the whole process, both in terms of audio and video, from production to post-production.

SPECIFICATIONS

• Project Type:

  Experimental, Short

• Genres:

  Experimental

• Runtime:

  10 minutes 6 seconds

• Country of Origin:

  Italy

• Country of Filming:

  Italy

• Language:

  English, Italian

• Aspect Ratio:

  2:40

• Film Color:

  Color

• First-time Filmmaker:

  No

• Student Project:

  No