Shapeshifters

HD video and digitised 16 mm film, loop 17 min, 2025

still from video full hd, 2025

Some figures appear as shapes imprinted in transparent crystals and hidden presences in the fractures of the rocks; in the details, possible narratives appear and are preserved. The signs left by sedimentation, metamorphosis, erosion, and pressures that have shaped the rocks are interpreted as phantoms: a sort of suspended animation. Finally, a song composed of a few stanzas marks the transition from digital to analog film.

exhibition view, galleria tiziana di caro, photo: danilo donzelli

exhibition view, galleria tiziana di caro, photo: danilo donzelli

exhibition view, galleria tiziana di caro, photo: danilo donzelli

A film by Giovanni Giaretta

Cinematography Giovanni Giaretta

Cinematography 16mm Onno Petersen, Nicola Baratto

Editing and Sound Design Giovanni Giaretta

Sound Mixer Pepijn Kortbeek

Thanks to Daniela Zangrando and Dr. Agnieszka Wołodźko and BioLab at AKI

With the support of Mondriaan Fonds

Shapeshifters

Composed by Giovanni Giaretta

(Giovanni Giaretta - Bass Guitar, Faysal Mroueh - Voice, Danielle Vorthuys - Voice, Cecile Tafanelli - Voice)

Mixed by Cecile Tafanelli