Projects of co-workers
Video večer / Video Evening #12:
Goodnight Sofia
Film screening

Tuesday, December 4, 2012 at 7 pm
Photon Gallery, Trg prekomorskih brigad 1, Ljubljana

We are informing you about the exhibition project of Kolektiva Institute, co-organized by Vesna Bukovec, SCCA-Ljubljana's webmaster.

In the 12th Video Evening KOLEKTIVA presents a film Goodnight Sofia by Italian filmmaker Leonardo Moro. The film is an abstract documentary about childhood, family, and memory.

A girl, after suffering a serious loss, goes through the empty streets of a town far away. She’s alone and hurt. Where is she from? What is she looking for? The sounds and lights of the city take her into a journey within herself, at the roots of her pain.

Goodnight Sofia , directed by: Leonardo Moro, 2012

With Lucia Telori, Nikolina Yancheva, Domenico Pelini / directed by Leonardo Moro / cinematography by Lorenzo Robusti / original music by Dorothy Hayden / film editing by Edvard Tear / sound by Toshiaki Kobayashi / produced by Leonardo Moro Lorenzo Robusti / BBM film / 2012

Duration of the film is 50 minutes.

Director’s note

Goodnight Sofia is the story of a voice lost forever. A voice full of life and projects. My father’s voice. The last memory I have of him, or at least the sharpest, is linked to Sofia and to his voice. It’s a small memory, but it’s the only one I have. A phone call, which lasted five or six minutes; I was passing through Sofia after a trip to Istanbul, he was home. Everything was normal, as usual. My father took his own life two months later. For a long time I asked myself how could I save him. Why I did not understand? For a long time I wasn’t able to look at pictures of him or to pronounce his name. I felt betrayed and abandoned. I went back to Sofia to look for his voice, in those streets that he had never seen. Far from home, far from everything. I started from the end to find him. The present, in the film, is represented by a lonely girl in a ghost town. The past is the recall of an imaginary childhood, almost magic, through my childhood, cinema’s childhood, Sofia’s childhood, and the childhood of other families far and lost. Goodnight Sofia is not a film about my father. Goodnight Sofia is a film for my father.

Leonardo Moro

About the author

Leonardo Moro was born in Spoleto, Italy on December 31th 1985. He wrote about cinema and literature for several newspapers and magazines. In 2009, thanks to the publishing house Minimum Fax’s support he was responsable in first person of the publication of the American writer John O’Brien’s work. In 2012 he created the online literary magazine “Brown Bunny Magazine” (which published among others Dan Fante, Arnon Grunberg, Matthew Sharpe, John Wray). “Goodnight Sofia” is his first film.
www.goodnightsofia.net | www.brownbunnymagazine.com

More info:

• Video večer / Video Evening #12
• www.goodnightsofia.net

Photon Gallery
Centre for Contemporary Photography of Central and South East Europe
Trg prekomorskih brigad 1, 1000 Ljubljana
t: +386 (0)59 977 907
www.photon.si
Opening time: Mon.-Fri.: 12am - 6pm

Video Evening #12
Production: Kolektiva Institute
Co-production: Photon Gallery, BBM Film
Project coordinators: Vesna Bukovec, Metka Zupanič

Video večer / Video Evening is a monthly event organized by Vesna Bukovec and Metka Zupanič from Kolektiva Institute in which we screen video selections prepared by various invited artists, curators, institutions, asociations and festivals.

[Published November 30, 2012]