FINE ARTS

Marta Morandini – Sponde

by Marta Morandini

Sponde is a film that dwells on the passage between the end of childhood and the beginning of adolescence of three friends during a summer's day. The girls part from their friends and the crowded beach and set out along the banks of the river. The landscape gradually opens up, human voices give way to the sounds of nature and the animals that inhabit the river. In this silence, a vision of a metamorphosis of bodies and landscape unfolds in a unique symbiosis. As evening falls, one of them is seized by an inexplicable stirring of the soul and turns back, without warning her friends who have fallen asleep on the rocks. The other two, upon waking, continue walking in the direction of the water, becoming small figures lost on the horizon.