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Fosforo

Fosforo is an audiovisual work born in 2024 from the exploration of noise and graphic elements of a cathode ray tube television that's not receiving a signal.

The visual material was created by exploiting the inherent characteristics of light, the screen, and the camera itself: varying the exposure time to achieve a flicker effect, distorting the image by filming through a glass sphere, and stressing the TV pixels with a powerful magnet.

The sound, on the other hand, blends the mechanical and electrical noises of the television with soundscapes and natural elements, in an attempt to guide the gaze toward a correlation between the external, tangible world and the abstract one projected by the electron beam onto the phosphors of the cathode ray tube.

  • Marta Zigante
    Director
  • Project Type:
    Experimental
  • Runtime:
    8 minutes 21 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    June 1, 2024
  • Production Budget:
    0 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Italy
  • Country of Filming:
    Italy
  • Shooting Format:
    digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    4:3
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Kinejo Film Festival
    Velletri
    Italy
    September 25, 2025
    Italian Premiere
  • Segnali Festival 2025
    Perugia
    Italy
    October 11, 2025
    Second Prize
  • Premio Nazionale delle Arti
    Sassari
    Italy
    November 14, 2025
Director Biography - Marta Zigante

Marta Zigante is an electroacoustic musician and composer. Her work primarily revolves around free improvisation with Maltempo Collettivo and Collettivo Litio. Her research focuses on the connection between sound and visual sign, from the creation of graphic scores to the development of audiovisual works.

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