
Farmacia notturna
- Publisher
- Contrasto
- Year
- 2020
- ISBN
- 9788869657993
- Specifications
- Cloth-bound hardback
17 x 23 cm
96 pages
73 pictures in colour
Supported by Gucci
The first book of images by the film directors Fabio and Damiano D’Innocenzo, who made La terra dell’abbastanza and Favolacce, in competition at the 2020 Berlin festival. The volume is a conversation about the medium made of images and of words shared between the two, a book that feeds the hunger to see and the need to express oneself in different languages. It goes back, as though one were reading notes written earlier, over episodes of a shared childhood or experiences distant in time and space, in a continuous, extremely spontaneous and wry dialogue between the two young twins, who through the pages reveal what they take the medium to be, telling each other about themselves and underlining all their differences: "I would like to tell something mysterious with these frames, and something of mine, something that can become yours too, but you have to want to know me." The colour snapshots that accompany their conversation take on different shades according to the eye that makes them, and are ready to change meaning according to the sensibility and the mood of whoever looks.