Nicola Baratto
Dew Point - Film - 15min - 2024
presented as part of the exhibition Panorama 26
Dew Point is an experimental sci-fi film inspired by dream incubation rituals and the ancient practice of dew harvesting. Building its poetics on an enigmatic alchemical treatise, the film fabulates on a person who experiences a form of amnesia after having a terrifying nightmare. His mind is so fogged that he cannot remember anything past and cannot create new memories. As he finds himself in a mysterious Sleep & Memory lab a young doctor attempts to cure him through a magical curative water. In a trance-like state, the doctor guides the patient towards the top of an arid mountain where ‘fog catchers’ transform mist into water droplets. To re-orient his mnemonic, psychological and spiritual states of being, a transformation of matter is required, and the patient must distil the fog through the act of dew harvesting.
Nicola Baratto
Nicola Baratto (IT, 1989) is a multidisciplinary artist working with film, sculpture and installation. Nicola’s work develops through research on dream practices, alchemy, myths and historical imagination. He is half of the artist duo Baratto & Mouravas, whose *Archaeodreaming* method explores the overlaps between sensory archaeology and oneiric experience to observe how material memory influences collective and individual lives.
Production
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Credits
› Cheffe opératrice, directeur de la photographie : Aurore Toulon
› Actrice : Magdalena Mitterhofer
› Acteurice : Maziar Firouzi
› Figuration : Achref Toumi, Alan Affichard, Amer Albarzawi, Brieuc Schieb, Milon Anthedemos
› Assistants réalisateur : Hala Namer, Maëlle Tocaben
› Assistant caméraman : Leonardo Ruvolo, Lucas Plançon
› Électricien prise de vue : Benoit Lancial
› Preneur de son : Abdourrahman Benaroub, Andres G. Vidal
› Costumier : G. & G. Nordio
› Directeur·trice·s artistiques : Maëlle Tocaben, Nicola Baratto
› Producteur délégué : Leonardo Ruvolo
› Superviseur du scénario : Aleksandre Zharaya
› Producteur : Alia Belgsir
› Consultant scientifique : Corey Andrews, Jamila Bargach
› Montage image : Leone Maria Kervischer, Nicola Baratto
› Musique originale : Circular Ruins
› Montage son : Luc Aureille
› Bruitage : Francesco G. Gagliardi
› Mixage son : Tom Nollet
› Étalonnage : Aurore Toulon, Nicola Baratto
