Wunderkammer
Andrea Pallaoro / 2008 / Drama / United States / English
/ Subtitles: English;French;Spanish
/ 13'00" / 16 mm / PG-13
Synopsis
An elderly woman and her son struggle to coexist in a house that shelters a spectacular menagerie of birds. Surrendering to their codependence, inside a world that bears no exit, they go about their bedtime ritual resisting and succumbing to each other’s needs.
Review
Wunderkammer was born from the passionate aspiration to portray and explore the unsettling, delicate, and intimate nature of the everyday austere moments and gestures that determine and shape the co-dependent relationship between a mother and son, two characters who have alienated themselves from the rest of society by creating their own private world. This state of existence found its authenticity though the physical creation of an “exclusive interiority,” where the immobility of the dead illuminates the condition of the living. This film wants to reject all moralism; in fact it was written and directed with the firm belief that, to comprehend human behavior, all acts of judgment must be suspended.
Andrea Pallaoro
Andrea Pallaoro is a film and theater director whose recent work investigates the human perception of alienation and its relationship to intimacy. He is interested in further exploring the complexities of human behavior through the language of cinema and through the art of image making. Andrea holds an MFA in Film Directing from the California Institute of the Arts. He was born in Trento, Italy and currently resides in Los Angeles, CA, where he is working toward the realization of his next film projects.
Festivals
Sundance International Film Festival (2009) / Curtocircuito- Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes de Santiago de Compostela (2008) / Los Angeles International Film Festival (2008) / LA Shorts Fest, USA (2008) / Krakow International Film Festival (2009) / Athens Short Film Festival, Greece (2008) / Sao Paulo International Film Festival, Brazil (2008) / RIIFF- Rhode Island International Film Festival (2008) / Hollywood Film Festival, USA (2008) / Miami Short Film Festival (2008) / Kinoforum São Paulo International Short Film Festival, Brazil (2008) / ÉCU - European Independent Film Festival (2009) / SplitFilm Festival- International Festival of New Film, Croatia (2008) / SLIFF- St. Louis International Film Festival, USA (2008) / Radar International Independent Film Festival Hamburg (2008)
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Radar International Independent Film Festival Hamburg (2008) Best Short Film / Salento International Film Festival, Italy (2008) Best Short Film / Bolzano Short Film Festival, Italy (2008) Audience Award
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