ABOUT

This is my main project made for my final year at RCA, it was made entirely by me with the exception of the sound mix.
In the summer of 2015 a childhood friend of mine started behaving unusually. Throughout the course of a fortnight he carried out wilder and wilder acts in a beach resort not far from my hometown in the South of Italy. The community was shaken and did not know how to intervene, until the authorities had to step in. He was later diagnosed with a mental disorder.

For this project I decided to crystallise this moment in time in the most respectful manner I possibly can by translating my experience into an allegorical narrative: that summer I arrived on the scene a few days after the fact, so I know of this solely from others’ recollection. Haunting feelings of bewilderment and powerlessness are what inspired this interpretation.
Medium: hand-drawn pencil on paper
Size: 4:20