Private Project

THE FIFTH NIGHT

Human destinies are the consequences of his choices and actions.
Fossil fuels, petroleum, atomic energy, religious radicalizations, weapons for everyone, pedophilia, corruption, dictatorial and fiscal countries: They are all reflections of a not so cheerful present and presages of a near future.
Increased of the life expectation worldwide, almost free healthcare, food nearly for everyone, eco-friendly cities, freedom of movements, affordable knowledge and information: they are the reflection proposed by an action aimed to positivity.
In both cases it’s human beings who decide which way to go.
What do we want to meet? Will be the positive or the negative actions that determine the plan of our future?
Claire lives a near future reality in which the positive actions of the human being seem to have prevailed. His friend Leonardo makes a change to Claire's “Dream Machine” a device that she uses to relax through lucid dreams.
Traveling through the dreamlike world she discovers the existence of another reality determined in a very different way from the one that she always believed to be the only one.

  • Valentina Ghiringhelli
    Director
  • Valentina Ghiringhelli
    Writer
  • Luca Micheli
    Writer
    Help in drafting dialogues
  • Tommaso Sacchini
    Writer
    Help in drafting dialogues
  • Valentina Ghiringhelli
    Producer
  • Letizia Toni
    Key Cast
    "Claire"
  • Leonardo Lenzini
    Key Cast
    "Leonardo"
  • Misha Tarasiuk
    Key Cast
    "Mathias"
  • Luca Micheli
    Key Cast
    "Maziar"
  • Sara Cervasio
    Key Cast
    "Woman expelled from the positive world"
  • Camilla Franceschi
    Key Cast
    "Woman expelled from the positive world"
  • George Denis Pavelescu
    Key Cast
    "Man expelled from the positive world"
  • Lorenzo Riccò
    Key Cast
    "Man expelled from the positive world"
  • Valentina Ghiringhelli
    Video editing
  • Valentina Ghiringhelli
    Sound editing
  • Giacomo Balli
    Boom operator
  • Matteo Colonna
    Original music composer
  • Davide Martiello
    Original music composer
  • Valentina Ghiringhelli
    Camera operator
  • Valentina Ghiringhelli
    Colorist
  • Valentina Ghiringhelli
    Direction of photography
  • Valentina Ghiringhelli
    Executive producer
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Runtime:
    18 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    March 8, 2019
  • Country of Origin:
    Italy
  • Country of Filming:
    Italy
  • Language:
    Italian
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
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.