Films

Perduto Amor

Musikanten

The shift from composer/musician to film director was pretty smooth. I believe that a true artist is able to express himself through all forms of art, whether it’s music, dance, painting ...

Directing the film was an amazing experience, it taught me a lot visually. It is hard at the beginning for an artist who is famous in one specific field to be taken seriously in another, but once they see that your work is valuable the initial skepticism is forgotten.

Everything an artist does has something that is autobiographic, it’s impossible not to put a little bit of yourself in your work. Just like Ettore I was born in Sicily, but my reality was very different from his. I came from a more rural, almost indigenous environment. There were no noblemen taking care of me.

Ettore’s interests growing up are also my interests: music, philosophy, esoterism, learning from life and the people that we meet along the way ...

I don’t feel ready to shoot one long feature, I still prefer to keep my stories episodic. My future film is also shot in three episodes. It’s a film on the last days of Beethoven’s life and the central episode takes place during a symphony but the entire symphony is silent, because there is no more music to listen to.

The character of Beethoven is an excuse to describe the sense of excellence, which tends to disappear. I want to strike the spectator to a superior and deeper level than the story itself.