Il Posto Vuoto

“Il Posto Vuoto” was born from my passion for the fantastic and fairy-tale type of narrative. My desire was to take on a melancholic and grotesque story, heavily influenced by classic fables by Brothers Grimm & Perrault, using environments and characters typical of those stories - through the use of elements such as the woods, giants and dwarves. My aim was to bring back the taste & flavour of the old illustrated storybooks, letting the viewer in a poetic, enchanted fantasy where everything goes back to distant, forgotten places. Places often visited by a child before he falls asleep. An extended dream, which tends to require more emotional involvement, demanding an active participation from the viewer's side – as for an illustration of one’s favorite fairy tale. The result is a film whose suggestions provoke the ability to find the ultimate true meaning of the narration, dusting off a world made up of forgotten places and helpless characters, a vehicle to help rediscover - through irony and melancholy - a faded childhood.