Private Project

Edyfing Thoughts od a Tobacco Smoker

It’s a journey through three different and ever deeper phases that unmasks and deconstructs the false convictions of the character and his way of perceiving reality.
First through the five senses, then deeper on a mental level and finally in his subconscious represented by a cave, where he overcomes the fear of being himself imposed by society and break up the cage represented by the Celestial Sphere.
Finally the character returns in the opening place totally transformed and realizes that it was thanks to himself that he can now know a life far from false beliefs and mental stereotypes.

  • Valentina Ghiringhelli
    Director
  • Valentina Ghiringhelli
    Writer
  • Immagina Cinema School
    Producer
  • Lorenzo Provvedi
    Key Cast
  • Jose Nilton
    Key Cast
  • Project Type:
    Short, Student
  • Genres:
    Fantasy, Experimental
  • Runtime:
    5 minutes 52 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    June 28, 2018
  • Country of Origin:
    Italy
  • Country of Filming:
    Italy
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    Yes
Director Biography - Valentina Ghiringhelli

Born in 1987. After an Interior Design education, she attended the master of Journalism and Visual Communication. Later she obtained a scholarship and attended the master in Photography and Visual Design at NABA-Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan. In 2012 she was selected for the artist in residence for the Deauville Photography Festival Planche(s)Contact, curated by Patrick Remy (Steidl).
In 2013 works with Exposed, research lab on the transformation of Milan in view of Expo2015 hosted by Careof, Fabbrica del Vapore and wins the contest Spazio23Award organized by the homonymous Genoese gallery.
She exhibited in solo and group exhibitions including Rock your Dummy! Le Photobookfest, L’Ancienne Imprimerie/Picture Tank (Paris, 2015); The Things One Sees in the Sky, Fotografia Europea (Reggio Emilia, 2015); Exposed Project, Forma Meravigli (Milan, 2015); La grande Milano-dall’architettura moderna alla città del futuro, Villa Necchi Campiglio (Milan, 2014); L’alfabeto della città metropolitana, Fondazione Stelline (Milan, 2014); Desire, Drena Castle (Trento, 2014); Milano Città Aperta: Five years of independent photographic narrations, Polifemo-Fabbrica del Vapore (Milan, 2014); Riccardo Prina Prize,Triennale Design Museum, Palazzo dell’Arte (Milan, 2014); contributor for Nothing to see here, curated by Francesco Jodice (Milan, 2012); Il mondo interno dell’esterno dell’interno (Milan, 2012).
In 2015 she is selected by Art:I:Curate -London and New York based startup-with the project Under Control; presents the personal exhibition Desire curated by Sandro Iovine at Villa Reale of Monza, and she’s shortlisted for the International Art Film Festival, Spazio Oberdan, Milan.
In 2016 she is shortlisted for Premio Fabbri for contemporary art, curated by Carlo Sala, Villa Brandolini, Treviso, Italy; in 2017 she is invited to partecipate to International Photo Project: La Habana-Milano-New York, curated by Alain Cabrera Fernández-Elio Grazioli-Frank Franca, supported by Fondo Malerba per la Fotografia, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan. Exhibits at Wopart, Work on Paper Art Fair (Lugano 2017) and at Mala Yerba-Fotografìa Contemporànea Italiana y Cubana, (Fototeca de Cuba, Avana, Cuba).
With her first short film she wins at Florence short Film festival 2018 for best Experimental Short Film, Cinema Odeon and she's selected for Psychedelic Film and Music festival, Museum of Moving Image, New York City; Lift-Off Sessions; Inshort Film Festival 2018, Lagos State, Nigeria; Lift-Off First-Time Filmmakers 2018 Christmas Special. In 2019 she's selected for NanoCon International Film Festival NIFF, Longview, Washington DC, for 2019 Audience Awards Music Shorts Film Festival and she’s Finalist for Las Vegas Global Film Festival 2019, Las Vegas, NV. She exhibited at 50x50x50 Freiräume - Spazi Liberi 2019 Art Südtirol (Bolzano, 2019) and screened during Kcmarc concert at WantedClan, Piano City 2019 (Milan 2019). Her second short film La Quinta Notte has been selected for Bideodromo Internacional Experimental Film and Video Festival 17-25 sept 2019, Bilbao, Spain.

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Director Statement

Her projects through the narrative sequence focus on a variety of topics like the relation between matter and energy, the wave-particle dualism, light and its vibrant nature, colors frequencies, perfect geometry of life and the interconnection among all this things; but also the formation of dreams from our desires according to Freud's psychoanalytic theory; individuals different reactions to visual stimulus; the oniric narration of one the most beautiful Rimbaud’s illumination; a strong criticisms among food chemistry; the struggle and intolerance between populations; our future narrated in a sci-fi series described Earth's condition post humanity; and finally the analysis of our "controlled" society made of confused images like Paul Virilio said.