Lorenzo Castore
Sogno #5

A film by Lorenzo Castore | 2013

Italie
en
10'

Lorenzo Castore |Sogno #5

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Synopsis

Lorenzo Castore's enigmatic photographic film of rare beauty was directed in the largest psychiatric hospital in southern Italy. 220,000 square metres in the centre of Naples, where thousands of undesirables were interned from the end of the 19th to the end of the 20th century, sometimes unofficially. Thirteen years after its closure, Lorenzo Castore and Irene Alison, whose psychiatrist father worked at the hospital, accompanied by a group of actor-psychiatric patients, offer a poignant reinterpretation of August Strindberg's A Dream Play, shedding light on the remains of this ghostly institution.

What you will find in this film

Images of an abnormal institution • traces of a ghost town - dazzling acting by psychiatric patients • sublime colour grain • previously unpublished photos • a richly composed soundtrack • a rare photographic film • a place where history remains hazy • an intuitive and sensitive approach • a tension between body and space

Keywords

Reportage & Society Analogue Photography Photographic Film Creative & Exhibition Photography

Irene s'occupait de ses origines, tandis que je m'occupais d'une matière vivante composée de Irene was dealing with her origins, while I was dealing with a living matter made up of individual and collective memories :as I always try to do when I am drawn in a certain direction by instinct and emotion, I tried to dig inside that first sparkle of idea.

Lorenzo Castore Photographer

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The authors/artists

Lorenzo Castore

Further exploration

FIÈVRE ; Lamaindonne ; 2024
SÈTE #23 ; Le bec en l’air ; 2023
WALLS ; Grano Edizioni ; 2022
TIME MAZE - 2001-2007｜Lack & Longing ; L’Artière ; 2022
GLITTER BLUES ; Blow Up Press ; 2021
TIME MAZE - 1994-2001｜A Beginning ; L’Artière ; 2019
LAND ; Blow Up Press ; 2019
EWA & PIOTR ; Les Editions Noir Sur Blanc ; 2018
ULTIMO DOMICILIO ; L’Artière ; 2015
PARADISO ; Actes Sud ; 2005
NERO ; Federica Motta Editore ; 2004

Lorenzo Castore’s website

The artist’s page at the Box Gallery Bruxelles

Taking Revenge On Time, a chat with Lorenzo Castore by Right Eye Dominant