in its bones (02'02")
video Furio Ganz
text Giuliano Tarlao
music Yakamoto Kotzuga
voice Laure Claire
translation Emma Grace
© 2025

        April 2025: presented by Cinema Flux - where is the film? at Ex Cinema Garibaldi -Venezia, now Coop supermarket
        

In 2012, during a storm surge, I lost a video camera in the waters of the lagoon. It remained switched on, continuing to record the submerged landscape until I found it again shortly afterward.
I thought of that recording as a suspended file, lost at sea, carried by the current, occasionally resurfacing.
I reflected on how tides collect, move, and deposit everything they encounter.
Over the years, I have reused that material in various projects. Now I present it here again, in a new form.

Voiceover:
It happens along a stretch of coast, where the tides and the salt had corroded 5 boulders. Underwater, it was said that salty mosses could have taken you even from a long distance. They used to move slowly, reaching any presence, human or nonhuman.
-I kept on coming back
-How was it?
-When I saw him, he was already part of them.
-What have they seen?
-They haven't seen or heard.
-Neither sound nor trace?
-The lagoon had suffocated them
-The lagoon had eaten.
-Are they now in the lagoon's mouth?
-They are in the same place as us
-Where?
-The lagoon eats with a full mouth and keeps everything for itself.
-How?
-It eats without dismembering, it flows inside without permeating
-In its bones, its smell, a fragment of the sun.
-The lagoon possesses and doesn't hold back
-Therefore, the light crosses with no memory
-What comes back, comes back with no name.
-The lagoon finds what the past swallows
-Doesn't give back without knowing
-Does the lagoon give in?
-The lagoon believes
-It erases the trail, which is unnecessary for them to appear again.
-Why do you keep on coming back?
-I come back without memory
-I go without searching
-Down there, something still moves.