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LUCID ROOM

Chiara Caterina
Italy, 2022
20 min.

Returning home after a break-up, a man finds himself in an empty room. His gestures and actions fill the time he spends in solitude and a few objects offer him temporary comfort until a deep sleep captures him. A lucid dream will initiate a healing ritual.

La stanza lucida is a film about separation and regeneration, about loneliness, empty space and the search for filling one’s self. Melancholy, feeling blue, sensations fixed in compulsive actions, a search for the past through home objects, family memories, a re/search through memory. Going back in time and permeating the membrane of the dream, the body regenerates. A dream in reverse – actions starting from the end to the beginning, from the object of the action to the self. Chiara Caterina’s film is a symbolic and speculative exploration; even if sleep is a form of escapism, it is also a form of coping: you allow yourself to pause and to sift things lucidly. (Emilian Lungu)

Data proiecție și locație

Saturday, 30th of September | 21:00

Cinemateca Eforie, Strada Eforie 2
Cumpără bilet

Premii și festivaluri

Chiara Caterina

After completing a degree in film studies at Rome University and a diploma in cinematography, Chiara Caterina studied a postgraduate degree at Le Fresnoy. Her first short film Avant la nuit was awarded and selected in many international festivals. Her short film Enchantment  was selected and awarded at the 36 International Critics Week in Venice and in many other film festivals.

  • Technical sheet
  • Production and distribution
  • DIRECTION, CINEMATOGRAPHY AND EDITING: Chiara Caterina
  • WITH: Francesco Napoli
  • SOUND DESIGN AND MIX: Massimo Mariani
  • COLOR GRADING: Stefano Barozzi
  • VIDEO Post-PRODUCTION: START
  • ARTWORK: Dario Volpe / Lettera7
  • PRODUCED BY: Clara Puhlmann & Carlotta Cornehl

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