I don’t know if “Normal Litio” is the most personal work I’ve ever made so far but it’s definitely the least intuitive from a first viewing.
Each of my works is a step towards a self-analysis that doesn’t always reveal itself immediately; each work is a very personal visual/sound staging that sometimes (I hope) touches universal territories.
The theme of this work specifically is the inner crisis; starting from my experience of a moment of creative/emotional stasis in which I found myself paralyzed both from a human and artistic point of view.
On the threshold of 45 years of age and suffering from bipolar disorder, I wanted to sublimate the experience by merging, in real time, these themes into a single work. The film, in fact, starts from a block, from the impossibility of being able to get out of a room/prison that is only mental.
I tried to summarize my experience in an inner video journey that evolves into a catharsis.
Specifically, the protagonist, searching in his inner desert, finds his inner home, the home of his inner child. In an attempt to reconnect with him, to awaken him, he kills his dark side that keeps him stuck in this mental state of inner apathy.
Inside the story there are many elements whose meaning I do not want to constrain, such as the figure of the woman or the egg and the horse, leaving a margin of work open to its translation.
COUNTRY : Italy YEAR : 2025 DURATION : 11 DIRECTOR, WRITER, SOUND, ANIMATION : Massimiliano Marianni
Bio: Massimiliano Marianni is an audio/visual artist, independent and self-taught.
Since 2014 his graphic work has been informed by a media research that leads him to the first short videos: analogic animations inserted in video installations using, in some cases, videomapping.
The use of digital is becoming more insistent and becoming peripheral heather cornerstone of the works to come, the tools he creates are filtered by digital software become inputs tuning distortion between the user and the sometimes performative work.
Pebbles Underground is focused on showcasing and promoting experimental, avant-garde, underground, and no-to-low budget projects by artist-humans from all over the world. Absurd, uncanny, witty, humorous, slow-video – all are welcomed, and loved.
Pebbles Underground is an independent project not funded by any government or corporation, and we intend to keep it that way. Main source of funding is personal donations from humans organizing the project, who are artists themselves, and the main drive of the project is formed by the energy and involvement of the organizers, and the public.
