We Are Not Alone

The first thing that moved me toward this career (and that keeps moving me more than anything else) is passion. I am deeply in love with what I do; when I speak of love in this sense, I am talking about a feeling that makes me feel fulfilled in my work for what this can give to others and myself.

When I first started, "Flora's Room" was my attempt to create a TV show for kids. I worked on the project from 2012 until 2015.
The central concept of the first season was to turn the room where the protagonist had just moved into the place of her dreams (I started it when I had just moved from Sardinia to London). The project aimed to develop creativity and fantasy, to have fun, avoid boredom, and learn how to feel comfortable with a new place and a new situation (which many children today have to face for many reasons: parents' jobs, divorces, etc. – moving and changing has become quite usual). The first live episode of the project was filmed during a village fair in Sardinia (Italy). The event was run by the organization "Zampaverde" (Pro Loco Arbus).
The concept of the second season of "Flora's Room" (Flora's Room: The Window) was to build a superhero costume that reflected the child's personality. The charity organizations supported by the project were Children with Cancer UK, Love is Louder, EMERGENCY, WWF, Greenpeace, and NEVER GIVE UP.

After gaining professional experience and saving money, I invested in my first animation project. This short film is my first milestone. My team and I made this short film by exploring Sardinia. On this island I come from, highlighting the local cultural aspects and the natural wonders it has to offer (the sounds of a scene are recorded in the cave of Ispinigoli in Dorgali; the central theme of the film was mixed using a typical Sardinian tenor song; the chase scene was mixed using the sound of the tools they use to forge craft knives in my island). The figure of the "ammuntadore," the sleep demon that transports the two girls into their nightmares, comes from a Sardinian legend.
I am very attached to my land. My works revolve around celebrating it.

"We Are Not Alone" is about a critical moment in my life: the moment I met my first love, what it meant for me then, and how my mind processed the memory over time. This short film is also very much about how I felt when I was with her... and what I wanted to do for her so that she would never suffer again. To turn back time and be there when things go wrong. With the belief that you have as a teenager, that you can save the world... I wanted to save her world as she was saving mine. It is a film about two solitudes that meet. Two girls who, finding each other, are no longer alone.

The story of "We Are Not Alone" comes from a chapter of the book "The World of Las," which I finished writing in 2018, and that inspired my third photography exhibition.
The decision to make the characters less detailed than the environments was born to emphasize the contrast between the two worlds described in the story. All this is linked to the original settings on which the short film is based. It is part of an experiment that sees the protagonist's mind as a concrete place and, therefore, more colorful and detailed. At the same time, the people who inhabit it are imaginary, distant, and ghostly. In the photographic experiment, this objective was achieved with a giant periscope. The woman was projected live into the scenarios built inside the theatre (see press kit for references of the photographs). The book about the experiment was published in 2019 by Officina Libraria (Milan) and presented for the first time at the Santa Teresa Media Library (Brera) in Milan in February 2019. On the same occasion, the photos and the interactive installation involving the periscope were exhibited and available to the public for a month. For a month, the exhibition retook place in Rome in May 2019 at the Centro Luigi Di Sarro.