Can
Someone
Meet
Me
In
Dark
Alley
?

A FILM BY GAETANO LIBERTI & LUCIANO PÉREZ SAVOY

2022 / Italy, Mexico / 52'37'' / DCP / English / Colour / Sound 5.1
Language: English

At the speed of light a conversation is heard, learned and remembered.
Through unmeasured distances two men share stories about their travels.
In the deep waters someone, wandering, dreams dream rooms where no dreams are dreamt.

— Two young men live, independently, in liminal space: on the threshold or in permanent transition between two worlds. One of these worlds, filmed with a camera, seems more "real" than the other, represented by computer generated images and explored by a digital avatar. But nothing could be less certain... for what the film seeks to imagine, portray and describe is this other reality of living on the threshold between the two worlds. To express the reality of this threshold, the directors imagined the correspondence between the two explorers, each recording and sending to the other their accounts of their journey into altered reality. The situations alternate between recording and listening, voice-in and voice-over. The film thus produces this reality and the fluctuating way of being that goes with it by constantly folding worlds into each other in the audiovisual image, differently each time. But whether speaking or listening, a common lack seems to affect the travellers, as if the spirit had separated from the body. This separation grants a strange freedom to give oneself a new body, new powers of perception and action – to be one's own Prometheus, but at the risk of floating, of treading water in suspended time on the threshold of existence, of incarnation itself. This is perhaps what's meant by the interspersing throughout the narrative of a third mode of perception in the surveillance videos that film everything and nothing continuously, like the one that, pointed at Independence Square on February 24th as it is every day, recorded for nothing the sound of the first Russian explosions around Kyiv. In this film that's simple yet enigmatic, opaque yet luminous, Gaetano Liberti and Luciano Pérez Savoy call upon one of film's rarely-used powers – showing, in order to study, a unique or new yet strangely disturbing way of being in the world. —

– Cyril Neyrat, FIDMarseille 33° –

FESTIVALS

－ FID Marseille 33° - 2022, Official Selection, International Competition
－ Black Canvas FCC 6° - 2022, Official Selection, Mexico Inside the Canvas Competition
－ DocLisboa 20° - 2022, Official Selection, New Visions, World Premiere





CREDITS

With Nicholas Leonardi, Drew Hoffman


UNIT 1 - SARAJEVO

Stranger in the park Nermin Dedić
Assistant Director Em Jaay
Director Of Photography Sigurður Möller Sívertsen
Camera assistant Luciano Pérez Savoy
Location Sound Julie Rodrigue, Lorenzo Fabbro
Line Producer Em Jaay
Production Coordinator Mersiha Halilović
Production Accountant Sanela Pripo
Location Manager Nedim Karalić
Lighting K-Light
Gaffer Armis Becirević
Grip Grip Team
Drivers Arman Šojko, Nedim Mujić
Equipment Coordinator Bojan Mijatović

UNIT 2

Camera, CGI-Machinima, Sound Design Gaetano Liberti, Luciano Pérez Savoy


Editors Gaetano Liberti, Luciano Pérez Savoy
Re-Recording Mixer Christian Marchi
Produced by Headline Productions, Have You Seen This Place? / Nigel Trei Production
Written and directed by Gaetano Liberti, Luciano Pérez Savoy