Ciacco (2021)

Subtitles for: Ciacco (2021)

Immersed in half darkness, the audience is exposed to sounds that are equally fascinating and repulsive: growls, whines, and barks assault the viewer relentlessly. On the screen, multiform and elusive images alternate, wavering between reality and representation, narrative of the present and atemporal evolutions, and imagination and perception. A disquieting presence progressively emerges out of a blurred dimension, while in the background a sound like rain can be heard. The unusual feral beast might be Cerberus, tormenting «the people that are there submerged» like a dog, while the «rain» is the endless dripping, torturing the depraved people relegated in etèrnum, forever, to Dante’s third circle: that of the gluttons, such as Ciacco himself.