The Immortals

This is a film I was supposed to make many years ago but at the last moment to change project, because this is a true story, a promise I made, a story that deals with such an universal theme that I needed to detach myself as much as possible from the truth, to make it plausible. Time, the obsession with the passing of time and our impotence as humans in front of this reality is the theme, to face the idea that the greatest fear that accompanied me as a child was occurring, the challenge. I am happy to have waited to make Gli Immortali because in the meantime I have explored and taken courage in consolidating an honest research: cinéma-veritè and realism have never been the style that most reflects my vision of the world, as a director but also as an audience.
Today those paths are walked down excellently by most, and audiovisual offers many languages, so the time was right: I had to make this film, this true story, with the language and the vision that are my way of seeing the world, for those who, like me, prefer the representation of reality, not its imitation. So I wanted to make this dramatic story as a Greek tragedy – the story of Chiara and that of Pentheus actually mirror each other with accelerating frenzy while they both desperately try to save themselves from what they live as a divine punishment of which they feel guilty – but I wanted to make it with a sci-fi style and rhythm, with the great complicity of my collaborators.
We recreated visually, but also with sound and music, that space where our subconscious stages our dreams, our nightmares. I wanted the protagonist to move as we move in our dream world, where we try to figure out what happened when we have to process seemingly unsolvable feelings. I wrote the story and then built it visually working on archetypes to which I hope anyone can relate, this my personal and universal Requiem for a whole category of people, I wanted to structure it risking almost a new genre, the mixture with dance theater, with the performance Chiara is working on as a light designer, and whose story ends up breaking into her life, as if the text was speaking about her, as it basically speaks about us. Truth is that the myth seems to say that among humans and gods, the gods always win, but do humans really lose? Because it is well known why, in the end, gods envy us.