Private Project

I think I Died when I was 10

“I Think I Died When I Was 10” is a surreal fashion film unfolding through a series of imagined letters written by a child to the lamp that fatally struck him. With each letter, the child fractures and transforms, denial turns to rage, fear to surrender.
Years later, a man discovers the letters and translates their emotional residue into clothing. Each garment marks a psychic rupture, a spectral phase in a story told through memory, identity, and disappearance.
Visually disjointed and sonically unstable, the film slips between blackouts, glitches, studio-borne apparitions, and dreamlike pulses, a body of grief wrapped in fabric, light, and sound.
Upon the death that finally struck him.

  • Anja Stroka
    Director
  • Nicolas Alejandro Rodriguez Vargas
    Writer
  • Anja Stroka
    Producer
  • Rosa Aida Ramirez Preciado
    Key Cast
  • Armando Aureliano Sauzullo
    Videography and Lights
  • Arber Sinanaj
    Voice Actor
  • Manuela Juan
    Styling
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short, Student
  • Runtime:
    8 minutes 49 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    July 1, 2025
  • Production Budget:
    1,000 EUR
  • 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 - Istituto Marangoni Firenze
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
Director Biography - Anja Stroka

Anja Stroka (b. 2005) is an Albanian visual artist and emerging director working across painting, installation, and experimental film. Currently based between Florence and Tirana, her practice explores dream logic, memory, and the unstable boundaries between reality and fiction. Her recent directorial work blends surreal narrative and poetic philosophy, often incorporating 3D environments and found footage. Stroka’s work is characterized by a raw, metaphysical tone, one that treats artmaking as an excavation of presence, loss, and the self as a shifting construction.

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