GRAZIANO
A Hermit's Story
2024, Germany/Belgium, DCP | Pal MiniDV | 720x576 pixel | 25fps (progressive scan) | 41' | Written, Directed, Edited by Jozefien Van der Aelst | Produced by KINO KOMBAT Filmproduction | Music by Akira Rabelais
Traveling to high altitudes, along the sites and sounds of a haunted mountain range with a troubled history, we come to know a solitary man who is living alone in a deserted village where he is acting out the part of a foreboding watchman. However, within his world on top of the mountain, Graziano is not only foreseeing and reflecting on worldly affairs โdown thereโ, he also fights ghosts vandalizing his property and hints at a spiritual reality beyond material living. Graziano writes down spiritual spells, political comments and opinions on wood and cardboard and assembles them all over the village. Next to being a painter of signs for his โyard showโ, Graziano also adopts the persona of an amorous opera singer and uses the desacralized church as his stage for his hymns to love. In Grazianoโs constant search for a long lost love, the film is filled with a melancholic longing. We search with him for the shadow of this woman and her identity. Will he ever be able to give his desire a name? In this speculative film of hermetic life, the camera gazes at Grazianoโs folk art environment and delves into his outsider melancholic enclave filled with both desire and rage. ๐พ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ฉ๐๐๐ ๐ด๐๐
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