Single channel video, 6m32s, 2004

Synopsis: Homey is a familar environment but not encouraging. The time of the tale is the past: the subtitles refer to the years already lived by the protagonist, the images, possible locations for those past events, are what has been chosen, what remains of the necessary path to find them.

Everything is already happened but, at the same time, few things can be absolutely said: the name, the age, the nationality, the job of the protagonist are uncertain and only partially deducible, there is no trace of his body. The phrases are subjective, autobiographical, the images could have been collected by the protagonist himself.

However Homey is more a whole of objects that build an unsolved open-structured environment, than a celebration of the bossibility of the man to control, define, classify, a reality.

The described events don't cover the entire life of the protagonist, they concentrate on a specific period, they are missing notes that, for some reason, re-emerge from what doesn't appears. What is immediately present is important for what surface, in Homey every element refers to the out-field.

Homey is an incomplete clue collection wherein everything is uncertain like the protagonist's desires. A man that react to the faiulure of the collective utopia of revolution thanks to a bourgeois and private utopia: building an house on the hills.

Those desires to escape from society and history are not wasted by disenchant, but they find in it an extreme reason for being.

In collaboration with Mirko Fabbri