Super 8 - Istria County Croatia, July 2019

Expired Kodak 7285 100D

Beaulieu 6008 Pro with Angenieux 6-80mm lens (with a bit of fungus)

Exposed at 100ASA, 24fps

Processed with Tetenal E6 chemistry in a Lomo UPB-1A tank

What is this flame that compels Don Giovanni to seduce, subjugate and conquer women one after the other, with the fervour and cold indifference of a predator securing his prey; to pursue through his conquests some obscure and ever‑elusive objective? For his second collaboration with Da Ponte, Mozart was to brand the history of opera with a hot iron and forever haunt European culture. In this Libertine Punished, Kierkegaard invites us to hear “the whisperings of temptation, the whirlwind of seduction, the silence of the moment”. The Mozart-Da Ponte cycle continues with a Don Giovanni entrusted to director Ivo Van Hove. In the wake of Boris Godunov, the director, accustomed to examining the political meaning of works, presents his second production for the Paris Opera.

Filmed in and around percussionist Milford Grave’s last public concert in his neighborhood of Jamaica, Queens.