Seeing comes first before words. The child looks and recognises before it can speak.
MONTAGE are four series (of four experimental videos each) starting on the one of fundamental stages of the audio-visual manipulation, the editing. It uses as leitmotif the “fusion” between two geographical areas in the North and South hemispheres, the first and the third world. It is a work in progress that uses audiovisual language as a tool to create a new anthropological-geographic virtual space. The concepts of a cinematography grammar mix themselves with memory, thoughts, and metaphors, digital and human expressions into the media.
The various chapters of MONTAGE are experiments with the moving image making music with the image or imaging of the sounds. It started from Ejzenstejn vertical editing basics concepts to go beyond, where the "significance" becomes "signifying", in a dimension of moving image gets purer and build up with film language that shapes the inner sense of a work and language research. The concepts of a cinematography grammar mix themselves with memory, thoughts, using the traveller as a life metaphor, an attempt to filter a dialogue between digital and human expressions into the media.
The struggle of concepts build up the narrative: information and alienation, technological and primitive, analogue and digital. In second series the work is particularly focused on the repetition, the loop and the multiple of images: life cycles.
MONTAGE is also a video installation project.
