Private Project

You can tell me anything

After their teenage son vanishes during a blackout, two parents discover his computer filled with endless AI-generated videos — surreal, indecipherable fragments that seem to speak but never explain. Each begins to project meaning onto the images, turning grief into obsession and love into interrogation. Through their overlapping voices, the film unfolds as a meditation on belonging and the impossibility of truly knowing those we love. You Can Tell Me Anything is an intimate sci-fi ghost story where emotion replaces logic and imagination becomes the language of loss.

  • Salvatore Frisina
    Writer
  • Salvatore Frisina
    Director
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short, Other
  • Runtime:
    4 minutes 29 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    August 31, 2025
  • Production Budget:
    500 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Italy
  • Country of Filming:
    Italy
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    A.I.
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
Director Biography - Salvatore Frisina

He teaches Mass Media Communication Theory and Practice at the University of Padua, within the Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education, and Applied Psychology, and works as a filmmaker for the university’s Department of General Psychology, producing research-based and narrative audiovisual projects.
He holds a PhD in Anthropology of Cinematic Imaginaries, developed in collaboration with the UCLA School of Film, Television and Theater in Los Angeles.
As a writer and director, he has made several short films, including E-Lena, which screened in competition at the Trieste Science+Fiction Festival. His short film A Good Idea won the Best Screenplay Award at the Oblivion Frames Film Festival (Lisboa).
He has also worked internationally as an editor for Troma Entertainment in New York and as an assistant director at the Prague Film School.
His work moves between cinema, academic research, and experimental storytelling, often exploring the relationship between images, power, and contemporary mythologies.

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Director Statement

In this short film, I portrayed through dozens of variations what growing up in a dysfunctional family means to me. Each image explores a different facet and moment in time. To bring order and meaning to these images, I wove them together with the family’s own dissonant and contradictory voices, searching for peace, understanding, and a chance to be heard.