Altrove

For my Bachelor’s thesis (in Media Design and Multimedia Arts, 2008/11), I wanted to tell about the creative process, describing my steps making an animation, improvised day by day. About the deadline, though, nothing was done, and all the creation fever turned into words, struggling to explain what happened to me: a long crisis during which I couldn’t appreciate myself––at all.

The result was a video of 5 seconds of blank screen and this sort of flow of consciousness (in Italian) printed on the animation sheets, placed in a garbage bag, that I had given to the teachers at the degree board instead of the usual, formal, bound book.

Afterwards, I started to say that my thesis about the creative process turned into a thesis about a failure; the whole story, obviously, did hurt. But during the academic defence and each time I told what I did (not) do, I could see how much my experience was expressing something that many people feel and, somehow, I recognised that what happened to me was something that had to happen: breaking into pieces exactly where one is meant to celebrate victory.

“Altrove” means “elsewhere”.