What Has Left Since We Left • première

What Has Left Since We Left by Giulio Squillacciotti

premieres at the Auditorium of the Louvre and online
Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin
26.02.2021, 7:00 PM

“The film was written long before the outbreak of Covid. It was quite emblematic, however, that the place—the Maastricht hall where I had been several times—was deserted, with the lights off, isolated. I immediately thought of the film’s synopsis; I thought of isolation almost in asylum terms. Three fictional politicians placed in an ideally future but inevitably near context. In a place emblematic both for Europe’s past and equally for its end. The three discuss inside the hall abstractly, completely isolated from the outside, just like the translator in her translation booth. The isolation is not meant politically; I wanted a detachment from reality and to isolate them in a sort of hyperuranion of inconclusive thoughts. An infinite decision loop. I wanted to convey the idea of a future born on ruins, just like that of Europe. We lie on these ruins waiting for something that will never happen,” Giulio Squillacciotti tells Giulia Giambrone in an interview for Inside Art.

The film is produced by Careof and Kingswood Film, in collaboration with Jan Van Eyck Academie, Video Power, Everstory, and Museo Civico di Castelbuono. What Has Left Since We Left is made possible thanks to the support of Italian Council (6th edition, 2019), a program by the Direzione Generale Creatività Contemporanea of the Ministero della Cultura to promote Italian contemporary art worldwide.