Maria’s Silence / Il Silenzio di Maria

This film is based on documentary material but is not, strictly speaking, a documentary film. Nor is it a work of fiction. The film appears to us rather as a dream, not a night dream, but a dream that took place day after day during the shooting.

“My only guideline is instinct, a way of perceiving how images strangely attract each other and thus advance the visual narrative in an associative way. I always try to follow this inner need, a mysterious rhythm rather than a conscious thought. Nothing was ever planned in advance and, when I started each of these films, I didn’t know where they were going to end. They were a journey in themselves.” Cesare Bedogné, Illambra interview