Documentary, 65′ – 2021

“Principle of everything is Àpeiron, the Undefined,
where all the things find their beginning and their destruction, according to the rules of Time. ”
— (Anaximander [in Simplicio] fr. DK12B1)

Directed by Sandro Bocci

Produced by Julia Set Lab, Aplysia, Dugong Films
Concept Sara Tassotti, Sandro Bocci
Art Director Maurizio Morganti
Music di Vincenzo Core
Color Grading Giuseppe Petruzzellis
Re-Recording mixer Giancarlo Rutigliano
Graphic Design Davide Perilli

What is Time?

Àpeiron is a a meditation on time, a concept hard to define with words which elude casual investigation about its very nature. In a progression of visual speculations the viewer experiences the unfolding of time from outside time, a place of the undefined.

The film unfolds through a subjective audio-visual path, beginning from abstraction, and progressively arrives to a more human perspective of the world, for then returning back to abstraction in a cyclical journey. The cycle is a direct inspiration from an ancient philosopher, Anaximander, whose idea named the film.

Àpeiron is a visual storytelling of handcrafted footage, microscopy, astrophotography, naturalistic sequences and subjective points of view that takes the viewer from an imaginary plane to a real one. The infinite dimensions on the topic of time find a convergence within the imagery of poetic language. The sequences don’t bound the viewer to a linear narration. Instead it leaves space to a plentiful of interpretations resulting from a collage of memories, experiences and abstractions.

UNIQUE FOOTAGE

Experimentation on images have begun in 2013 in an artisanal laboratory specifically handcrafted for the film.

Through different shooting techniques such as high magnification fluid dynamics, reflection and refraction of light, optical effects, magnetism and chemical reaction, we achieve images that have a life force unmatchable by computer graphics.

These footages, have prompted a conspicuous amount of collaborations including also TV-Series “One Stange Rock” produced by Darren Aronofsky, and feature films “Song to Song” and “Voyage of Time” by Terrence Malick.

The astronomic shooting is realized in collaboration with Giorgio Clemente and the Mosciano Sant’Angelo OACL Observatory (Teramo, Italy).

NEWS / DISTRIBUTION

• Project selected @ “In Progress – Milano Film Network 2015”
• The script of the film was finalist at “Premio Solinas Documentario per il Cinema, 2016”
• Bogotá Experimental Film Festival 2021 | Official selection
• Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival 2021 | Official selection
• NRFF Dreamers of Dreams 2021, Londra | Best New Media Film
• 57ª Academia Film Olomouc 2022 | Official selection