IN BETWEEN / NEL MEZZO by Massimiliano Marianni | Italy (2022)
Visual investigation based on a real audio interview.
On the basis of an audio testimony on the disease of schizophrenia, I brought to life the visions stimulated by the animated drawing by reporting fragments of the original dialogue.
In a double environment (bathroom, doctor’s office) the fantasies of a girl suffering from schizophrenic syndrome unfold. This path of self-analysis will lead her to confuse the real plane (experienced) with the imagi- ned one (fantasy) up to a capitulation in which the WHERE is destroyed and becomes another space. Starting from a certain interest in what concerns the altered perception of reality, I came across a video available on YouTube of an authentic testimony on the issue.
What I found is the personal testimony of real life, of a girl suffering from schizophrenia. The part that I thought was interesting was the potential of our brain to create alternative worlds, the highly subjective point of view that goes beyond the objectivity of things. After examining it I extracted parts of the dialogue and, stimulated by these, I built the visual part. Doing further research I discovered the existence of an “artist” named Eric Duvivier who has used this topic for scientific purposes to create videos that I consider to be at the crossroads between avant-garde and psychic documentation.
These were a great starting point to enter the visual dimension which I then proposed again. As a subject I used my daughter who, as a model for some videos, lent her presence to reconstruct the main character.
Bio
Audio/visual artist, independent and self-taught. Since 2014 his graphic work has been based on a media research that leads him to the first short videos analog animated animations inserted in installations with use, in some cases, of videomapping.
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