


Copyright © 2012 Kinoglazorama International - Michele de Angelis
Doors
Italy | 2012 | 10:17 | Fiction, Live Action
When a young woman is accidentally trapped between 2 doors, she soon realizes her nightmare is only about to begin.
Film notes
I’ve always been fascinated by the stories in which the ordinary is subverted and leaves room to the extraordinary. I’m not that much concerned about huge alien invasions with big robots fighting each other, but from the subtlety of a tale in which the daily routine transforms into a nightmare. A big deal of influence have been to me Richard Matheson’s books and TV shows like Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone. Doors is a claustrophobic tale of a descent into terror. It can be seen as pure form of entertainment with nice scares, but also can be read as a metaphor of the loss of communication between people, in an era in which really it is much easier, thanks to the modern technologies, to reach everybody else.
But still we don’t really care about the others, we are monads, as Fichte wrote, closed in themselves. While shooting and specially editing it, I made it a little more psychological than as it appeared on paper, even if I didn’t change a word from the original script. That was possible due to the skills of our talented actress, following my instructions she delivered a subtle performance with a perfect progression from bore to hysteria, to dread terror. I left room enough to viewers’ imagination. I wanted them to go out of the theatre still wondering what really happened, replaying the story in their minds.
I also wanted to challenge myself as a director trying to create different point views in a such constricted space, without the use of vfx, but using lenses and camera position; I used a set of 10 different lenses with two cameras.
All the shots from the spyhole and in the spyhole have been achieved in camera filming the actors through a 3 bucks peephole.
But still we don’t really care about the others, we are monads, as Fichte wrote, closed in themselves. While shooting and specially editing it, I made it a little more psychological than as it appeared on paper, even if I didn’t change a word from the original script. That was possible due to the skills of our talented actress, following my instructions she delivered a subtle performance with a perfect progression from bore to hysteria, to dread terror. I left room enough to viewers’ imagination. I wanted them to go out of the theatre still wondering what really happened, replaying the story in their minds.
I also wanted to challenge myself as a director trying to create different point views in a such constricted space, without the use of vfx, but using lenses and camera position; I used a set of 10 different lenses with two cameras.
All the shots from the spyhole and in the spyhole have been achieved in camera filming the actors through a 3 bucks peephole.
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Copyright © 2012 Kinoglazorama International - Michele de Angelis
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Previous screenings
2012
17 Sep – 24 Sep | Bitola, Macedonia
5th Morbido Film Fest | 2012
15 Nov – 18 Nov | Puebla, Mexico
2013
7 May – 13 May | Bogota, Colombia
Short Film Corner | 2013
15 May – 26 May | Cannes, France
33rd Fantafestival | 2013
1 Jul – 31 Jul | Rome, Italy
Mascara and Popcorn | 2013
14 Aug – 18 Aug | Montreal, Canada
Italian Horror Fest | 2013
30 Aug – 7 Sep | Nettuno, Italy
14th Off-Courts Trouville | 2013
6 Sep – 14 Sep | Trouville, France
Jagran Film Festival | 2013
24 Sep – 29 Sep | Mumbai, India
Festival de Cine Inusual | 2013
8 Oct – 16 Oct | Buenos Aires, Argentina
18 Oct – 28 Oct | Nicosia, Cyprus
26 Oct – 1 Nov | Salt Lake City, United States
Filmets: Badalona International Short Film Festival
8 Nov – 17 Nov | Badalona, Spain
Festival Srpskog Filma Fantastike | 2013
16 Nov – 20 Nov | Belgrade, Serbia
7 Dec – 15 Dec | Corinth & Loutraki, Greece
2014
Horror-On-Sea Film Festival | 2014
17 Jan – 19 Jan | Southend, United Kingdom
Macabre Faire | 2014
17 Jan – 19 Jan | Rockwell Centre, NY, United States
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Doors has received a new award at Germany After Dark Horror Festival. | more...
17 November 2013

Production country
Castel Gandolfo
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Running time
10 min 17 s
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