The Lack
Open Roads: New Italian Cinema 2015
June 4 - 11, 2015
North American Premiere
Q&A with MASBEDO on June 4
Directing duo MASBEDO bridges the gap between the worlds of video art and narrative filmmaking in this poetic work of pure cinema, a vignette-based investigation of the meaning of “lack” through the journeys of six women on the Aeolean Islands.
North American Premiere
Q&A with MASBEDO on June 4
In an attempt to bridge the gap between the worlds of video art and narrative filmmaking, Nicolò Massazza and Iacopo Bedogni (aka MASBEDO) have created The Lack, a radical, poetic work of pure cinema. Six women from six different countries—Eve (Lea Mornar), Xiu (Xin Wang), Anja (Giorgia Sinicorni), Nour (Ginevra Bulgari), Greta (Emanuela Villagrossi), and Sarah (Cinzia Brugnola)—navigate separate, barren Aeolean Islands by themselves. Working through their pasts, each of their journeys investigates the theme of a “lack,” including one that overtly references Antonioni’s L’Avventura. As visually dazzling as it is deeply emotional, MASBEDO’s experiment is worth every second.
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