Détour is a 16mm film directed by Nicola Pietromarchi and Filippo Castellano produced by Olympìque – A Film Label. It takes Marcello Jacopo Biffi's obsessive research into alphabets as a starting point to lead the viewer on a journey through landscapes of letters. It's a dreamy experience: the alphabets are blown out of proportion, each letter transforms into an abstract surface losing its conventional meaning. The eye follows the hands, which run through a maze of mysterious graphic signs: shapes blend one into the other, engendering a yin-yang like dualism. The paper sheets interact with each other generating three-dimensional architectural sculptures. The score, entirely made of pre-verbal sounds by Mara Miccichè, assists the deconstruction of the alphabet building a new elemental language.
Directed by Nicola Pietromarchi & Filippo Castellano
Production: Olympìque
Director of Photography: Gianluca Oliva
Sound design: Mara Miccichè
Set design: Stella Porta
Hands Model: Lucrezia Cuccagna
Gaffer: Paolo Pastaccini
Assistant Camera: Michele Porcari
Editing: Filippo Castellano
Colorist: Leonardo Masoero
Location: Marsèll Paradise
Print: Tipografia Valdostana
Détour is part of A is A is A
A project by Marcello Jacopo Biffi
On view/8–22 October 2020
Marsèll Paradise
Via Privata Rezia, 2 – Milan
Exhibition designed by From outer Space,
curated by BRACE BRACE, and produced by Marsèll