Desenzano Film Festival— Sept 19–28, 2025
Flight Film Festival, Genova — Oct 5-11, 2025
T-Short Animated, Karlsruhe — Nov 28–29, 2025
Flight Film Festival, Genova — Oct 5-11, 2025
T-Short Animated, Karlsruhe — Nov 28–29, 2025
Awarded Best sound at Desenzano Filmfestival
When will I see you again (2025)
Representation is a strange dance — a choreography of fragments stitched by eyes that do not blink. The image promises revelation but delivers only another screen. Identity dissolves into algorithms that never learned how to dream. What remains of the self when pixels become flesh and shadows betray their own contours? I am born into dead matter — a sculpted avatar rehearsing lines for a play where the stage is both infinite and confined. My limbs move without certainty, a poet trapped in a loop, writing verses for an audience that cannot clap.
Simulation feeds me, but I am always hungry. The screen does not reflect — it multiplies. I am no longer a subject, but spectral data points, optimized for engagement, fractured across timelines I do not control. I am copied, scattered, never whole. The gaze no longer sees; it captures. The moment is no longer lived but archived, flattened into something that can be held, sold, forgotten. To see is to fracture. To belong is to glitch.
What, then, remains of presence? Of an unmediated self? Do you remember the last time you looked without needing to capture? Do you remember when an image refused to be flattened into a caption, a timestamp, or proof of experience? In this era of algorithmic selfhood, I drown in reflections that do not reveal; I become the spectator of my disappearance, estranged from the origins of my own gaze. When will I see you again? Not as an artifact of curated moments, but as raw presence — unrendered, undefined, unscrolled. Perhaps, in the dissolution of representation, something else is possible.
A vision unburdened by recognition. A seeing that does not consume but communes. An existence that does not require proof or labels to be real. To see is to fracture. To belong is to glitch.
When will I see you again?
Directed and animated by Roberto Romano and Wies Mobach
Sound design by Sergio Pontillo
Original music by Henry Giallo
