that aims to explore the narrative possibilities of photography through its combination with other media and expressive languages, such as music, cinema and graphics.
HALLOWEEN SCARY NIGHT AT CINEMA
SECRET MOVIE THEATER BY RESERVATION ONLY
PHOTO AND SET DESIGN BY BARBARA BARBERIS, ENRICO PANI, STEFANO GIO SEMERARO PHOTO-FILM EDITING AND SOUND DESIGN BY GIULIANO MANSELLI / DROMA STUDIO GRAPHIC DESIGN BY DROMA STUDIO
TRAUMA Vision is a Collective founded in 2020 by
Barbara Barberis, Giuliano Manselli, Enrico Pani,
and Stefano Gio Semeraro.
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The Witch
PHOTO AND SET DESIGN BY BARBARA BARBERIS
PHOTO-FILM EDITING AND SOUND DESIGN
BY GIULIANO MANSELLI / DROMA STUDIO
LOCATION BOSCO DELLE GROANE E DELLA BRUGHIERA BRIANTEA
COLOR GRADING BY BARBARA BARBERIS, GIULIANO MANSELLI
GRAPHIC DESIGN BY DROMA STUDIO
If you blink three times your eyes, in the 10th frame you will see the witch.
A disturbing walk in the woods inspired by fairy tales and ancient folk legends of witchcraft. A ghostly atmosphere made even darker by the photographs in which all the shades of winter colors dominate. A sequence of pictorial scenes that slowly drags us into an ancestral hell of witches, devils and supernatural esoteric forces. Pushed into the depths of the woods, we are enveloped in a spiral of terror in which the intertwined trees and other natural or artificial elements are transformed into symbols of an arcane iconography. The sound, created with the aim of encouraging identification, accompanies the viewer into this sparse but frightening world of black magic
that scares and attracts at the same time, until we completely lose our direction in a climax of tension and mystery. A climax during which it does not matter what we actually see, but what we believe to have seen.
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Ringu- リング
PHOTO AND SET DESIGN BY STEFANO GIO SEMERARO
PHOTO-FILM EDITING AND SOUND DESIGN
BY GIULIANO MANSELLI / DROMA STUDIO
LOCATION BEPPU / KYŪSHŪ – OSAKA – TOKYO
COLOR GRADING BY STEFANO GIO SEMERARO, GIULIANO MANSELLI
GRAPHIC DESIGN BY DROMA STUDIO
A tribute to a cult J-horror film. The primary atmospheres of these images are the darkness of the night scratched by lights of the city,
guardian of secrets that it would be better left unknown, and the livid light of dawn that brightens the desolate landscapes around the wooden house where the curse perhaps began. A widespread sense of anxiety and disquiet, at first barely perceptible but increasingly growing, from which it is impossible to escape. Pulsating darkness of a subtle, subterranean, profound fear. A disquiet that finds its strength above all in the “not explained”, in a structure that tends to accumulate enigmatic elements refusing to give them a real explanation.
A montage of sequences disconnected from each other, held together only by the rhythmic sound of the telephone ringing, without an answer, and by the growing pressure of the musical background. That leads us into the nightmare of a sleepless night, made of frames full of mystery, apparently meaningless, but for this very reason of great impact, which produce an even more impalpable disquiet. All characterized by a widespread sense of melancholy and loneliness, in the most typical style of J-horror cinema.
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Serial Killer Portrait
PHOTO AND SET DESIGN BY ENRICO PANI
PHOTO-FILM EDITING AND SOUND DESIGN
BY GIULIANO MANSELLI / DROMA STUDIO
COLOR GRADING BY ENRICO PANI, GIULIANO MANSELLI
GRAPHIC DESIGN BY DROMA STUDIO
A murky unhealthy journey, made up of a distorted moral. The abomination without justifications.
A non-film, a hybrid with the morbid style of a real crime TV series. A rotten meal of cinema, vomited by a late-night journalistic reportage, mystified only by the grainy film and the background noises of an alienated normality. Trails of quiet that prelude a crescendo of horror, accompany us in a continuous aimless wandering that always brings us back to the same place. An audiovisual in total vision, in which there is nothing pure, crystalline, which like a mad splinter plants itself in the unconscious of the spectator.
Conceived and edited from a position where the concept of genre is denied, it is not a horror in the traditional sense, but it is in the broad sense of the daily horror that radiates from the evening news on TV. In a lethal game of voyeuristic attraction and repulsion that reveals, without concluding or showing anything, the sense of emptiness or the emptiness of meaning of contemporary society.
