Private Project

Love From Phyllis Diane

A abstracted depiction of the maternal and mesmerizing love between son and mother. Inside the son's isolated dream state and nostalgic reality, he has to accept his mother's mortality; but soon defies her fate by searching for what keeps her desire to live alive.

  • Victor Di Salvo
    Director
  • Francesca Penzani
    Collaborator
  • Ellen Edward-Seiss
    Collaborator
  • Angelica Mondol Viaña
    Collaborator
  • Wren Warner
    Collaborator
  • The Sharon Lund Disney School of Dance
    Producer
  • Lilia Deering
    Dancer
  • Victor Di Salvo
    Dancer
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short, Student
  • Runtime:
    4 minutes 16 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    December 30, 2016
  • Production Budget:
    0 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    Yes
Director Biography - Victor Di Salvo

Born and raised in San Jose, California, Victor has expanded himself throughout his life his passion for beauty and art. His primary medium is dance theatre, however in his studies at CalArts, under the direction of Francesca Penzani, Victor has expanded his interests in dance for camera. This only prevailed him to experiment his seducing love for tragedies and romantic narratives through the specificity of film and the bodily kinesthetics in dance.

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Director Statement

Throughout this extended process, this piece was once performed on the stage with Lilia Deering. This collaboration in the choreography became magic as we shared the space between both of our personas. However, this became something more personal for me to handle that this performance needed to be captured by film. Soon as I story boarded this narrative, I realized there's more to these personas relationship. After we successfully filmed this beauty, editing only added the layer of depth that was missing; who these people captured were.
Mother and son.
My father and his late mother's relationship unveiled itself to me, and thus my memories of Freddie Mercury's "You Take My Breathe Away" seemed to be the perfect touch to this maternal romance between the two.