Word of the Year 2024 Adventure: the IULM shorts
Three short films made by students in the Master's Degree in Television, Cinema and New Media explore the deeper meaning of Adventure, taking viewers from the Faroe Islands to Hong Kong to the remote lands of India. These works depict real and metaphorical journeys, under the guidance of director Giuseppe Carrieri.
Adventure, selected as Word of the Year 2024, is a word that conjures up pictures of extraordinary exploration and discovery, but its meaning goes far beyond a journey to unexplored places. It represents the search for the unknown, the desire to look beyond the illusion of what is familiar and to unveil what turns out to be far from oneself.
During the year, the students of the Master's Degree Course in Television, Cinema and New Media, under the supervision of director and lecturer Giuseppe Carrieri, dedicated themselves to researching the deeper meaning of the word Adventure, documenting it within three short films promoted by IULMovie Lab. Adventure thus turns out to be a real and metaphorical journey, made as much by the characters told as by those who remain as spectators.
Il mare breve (The Short Sea)
The first short film related to the word of the year, “Adventure,” was made by a crew composed of several students of the Master's Degree in Television, Cinema and New Media who worked on the image of a poetic and solitary remoteness, that of the keeper of the most remote lighthouse on our continent, in Akraberg, in the Faroe Islands.
Between broad gaze and long shots, the experience of filmic learning in the field has once again become tested in sensitivity and vocation for storytelling, in the sign of a university course truly capable of leading beyond, of launching toward, of projecting onto us that sense of the unknown that, deep down, knows how to make us grow.
The film was directed by Matteo Gamannossi and Riccardo Cocumarolo. Supervision of the project, with photography by Giuseppe Campo, was by director and lecturer Giuseppe Carrieri, while backstage photos are by Giulio Paletta. Production of the short film was supported by the Faroe Islands Tourist Board.
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The Drowned
How does one begin to wish?
The second short film related to the word of the year, “Adventure,” the story told in The Drowned follows in the long wake of Italo Calvino's “The Adventure of a Photographer.” Participating in the creation of this short film was a team of students from the Master's Degree in Television, Cinema and New Media who decided to do the most essential thing to start telling a story: they got lost.
In the Far East, in Hong Kong, the girls and boys tried to follow the steps of a mysterious figure, perhaps a photographer, who, amid the indifference of a thousand others , deludes herself to recover in the megalopolis what she has lost, constantly shaking with her camera, leaving behind silhouettes and filaments.
The Drowned, was directed by Alessandro Reato and Davide Negri, with the acting participation of Xiaolu Chen. Cinematography direction was by Giuseppe Campo, sound design was by Francesco Iachello, and development and production supervision was by Giuseppe Carrieri, director and lecturer at the Advanced Filmmaking Workshop.
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God Will Not Be There
Remoteness is the central theme of the third short film promoted by IULMovie Lab and made together with the students of the Master's Degree Course in Television, Cinema and New Media.
After the Faroe Islands and Hong Kong, the third special activity of the year took place in India, in a remote area of the state of Maharashtra where the fairy tale of God Will Not Be There took shape.
In an indefinite time that could be the future, amidst unmentionable spells and secret rituals, a child from a small village community is asked to assume the powers of a supreme deity so that rain may fall again on the fields to restore life to the surroundings. The rules of this game are not his own, yet something extraordinary, suspended between heaven and earth, is destined to happen for him to change everything.
With the participation of the two undergraduates Feliciana Rosa and Stefano Spolti, together with a crew of Indian film professionals, under the guidance of director and lecturer Giuseppe Carrieri, God Will Not Be There thus enriches the panorama of film research carried out on the indispensable field of the world, as the poetics of a space to be invented and tested in the feeling of adventure.