E COSÌ ENTRA LA LUCE

(AND THAT'S HOW THE LIGHT GETS IN)

A project of the (vertical)
Centre for Imaginative Ethnography

Simone Rapisarda Casanova

Italy/Canada, 2024

80 min, Colour, Stereo

...only I had failed to foresee one thing: 

the eyes that finally opened to see us

didn't belong to us, but to others.

Italo Calvino, Cosmicomics (The Spiral, III)

Set long after the end of the Anthropocene in the idyllic landscapes of what was once known as the Italian peninsula, E così entra la luce (And That's How The Light Gets In) follows four childlike creatures during their oneiric quest for names. An experiment in hallucinatory multispecies ethnography co-written with the entire cast and crew, the film was shot using the insect-centric perspective of a specially-designed pinhole camera.

PREMIERE TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON!

Made with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts