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22 February1970
Vomit
Author
Carlo Giampiccolo
Format
8mm
Duration
01'21''
Credits
Music by Guglielmo Pagnozzi

22 February 1970, day exterior. A young man is in the throes of a vomiting fit. We immediately notice that he expels strange objects: pieces of film, toy airplanes, toy soldiers... This sequence is probably to be understood as a physical (and symbolic) rejection of what we introject on a daily basis and on which we ourselves feed. Be it the news that arrives of distant and nearby wars, feelings of guilt, helplessness, images and representations of a world that no longer seems to belong to us. Finally we realize that we are watching a scene from a film that has never been completed, from a barely sketched speech. And there are those who let out a laugh by not taking themselves too seriously, yet through this sequence comes the vomit of an era that is still and perhaps increasingly our own.

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