MIRROR

During the months of lockdown due to the health emergency, I was able – in the almost total absence of any other social contact – to see (or to see again) a wide range of films. It was a way to make my head travel at very high speed, with changes in situations and perspectives as sudden as the transition from one film to another. Just when, on the contrary, the world was experiencing a suspension that went beyond the surreal.

Through cinema, social abstinence had turned into an oppurtunity to think about my inner life, finding myself “reflected” in the films I was watching. As if in a mirror . And ending up knowing myself, perhaps, a little more deeply.

This process of reflection, almost of personal analysis, now extends beyond the world of cinema and takes its cue from other visual references – old photographs or images found by chance on the internet – which become, in my eyes, “fragments of life” in which I see myself. Or which, maybe a little nostalgically, I wish I had experienced.

Jacopo Dimastrogiovanni