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Elsa

Elsa, the name is that of the girl portrayed playing in the water, is a video created with the step one technique, scanning frame by frame a 1970s Super 8 film and manually intervening on the print of each image obtained with acrylic, recycled and wrapping paper, laser printing, transferable letters, writer's markers, and all re-scanned to switch to video editing software.
A multidisciplinary approach combining traditional and digital elements.
The video installation consists of a large monitor lying on the ground so that people can walk around it as if it were a body of water.

  • Mirko Credito
    Director
  • Mirko Credito
    Writer
  • MODVS
    Music
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Experimental
  • Runtime:
    5 minutes 13 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    May 4, 2024
  • Country of Origin:
    Italy
  • Country of Filming:
    Italy
  • Shooting Format:
    Super 8
  • Aspect Ratio:
    9:16
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director - Mirko Credito
Director Statement

Multidisciplinary artist. Mirko Credito was born in Genoa. During his studies at art high school, he founded Studiomobile, an art group that is still active today, where he began his artistic experiments with video and photography. He attended the School of Applied Arts at the Castello Sforzesco in Milan and in 1994 he started his activity as a graphic designer at the same time as an artist. From 2011 to 2015, he taught Digital Design at the Ligustica Academy of Fine Arts in Genoa. Continuously engaged in the field of video art and photography, he started a research on the use of food material as a means of expression. The series Fritture is an evolution of his previous work Maschere di patate (Masks of Potatoes), made by photographing decontextualised real crisps. The Fritture are technically treated according to a special technique: they are beaten and fried in boiling oil, then scanned with a high-definition device to produce large-format prints. Some of the objects in Credit are a gun, a keyboard, a manga doll. The objects stand out against black backgrounds, like old icons, cropped, almost abstract, well disguised behind the gold that frying seems to imbue with gluttony and visual nausea.
During the pandemic period, he changed his technique radically, working with materials that belong to the history of graphics and photography, films, photocopies, transferable letters, printed and recycled paper, returning to the darkroom, making one-step videos and paintings with layered techniques.