Communion

Holding a baby, holding someone, holding something, holding faith are spaces of comfort felt within embodied gestures of communion.

  • Luca Asta
    Director
  • Luca Asta
    Producer
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short, Student
  • Runtime:
    9 minutes 23 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    June 28, 2019
  • Production Budget:
    3,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United Kingdom
  • Country of Filming:
    Austria, France, United Kingdom
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    Yes
  • Royal College of Art Degree Show
    London
    United Kingdom
    June 28, 2019
Director Biography - Luca Asta

Luca Asta is a French-Italian visual artist living and working in London. They graduated in 2019 in ‘Contemporary Art Practice’ at the Royal College of Art, with a practice of video, photography, sculpture, writing and performance. Luca Asta’s recent works have been looking at the psychosocial construction of the body, with a specific interest in structural and internalised oppressions. They are actively engaged in dismantling binary and heteronormative oppressions through intimate and confrontational works.

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Director Statement

'Communion' is a non-linear narrative assembling indoor intimate sceneries. It features images of a homosexual couple, a heterosexual one, two kids taking a bath with their mum, a newborn baby being held by their mum, a boi in their room putting on nailpolish and a dress, as well as a polyamorous cuddle party. These scenes constantly interlap each other through the edit of the film. All images have a strong sense of tactility through haptic visuals, be that skin and bodily matter or other materials such as fabrics.

Through non linear correlations, ‘Communion’ looks at intimacy as a need of protection through care and self care. The interconnections of all these images open up a rethinking on the constructed yet felt essentialist nature of these needs of protection.

Holding a baby, holding someone, holding something, holding faith are spaces of comfort felt within embodied gestures of communion.