Nobody, a short film by Oneness Act
In the world there are souls who live the silent drama of originality. No inclusion trend for them, as their diversity is intertwined with their personality and not easy to be showed by a selfie.
Over the years they learned to hide and escape, taking breaks from the tiredness of always feeling out of place and poorly tolerated.
Often they turn out to be talented people, with special features at least. But they don’t use them as one would expect, and usually these talents are co-joined by the malfunctioning of simple mechanisms, the ones that everyone manages, except them.
Envy, abandonment and frustration is what they collect from spreading their incomprehensible actions around, while they keep nurturing the dim light of an unattainable desire: to feel and experience the world exactly like the others, without necessarily having the duty to be the best, just to find themselves being the worses, at the end.
This is being original: almost like the new washing machine that Greek actress Marina Kalogirou bought one day and which was a marvel of technology, but didn’t spin clothes. Annoyed, Marina called a technician thinking of a damage, but the technician played his new job of philosopher of mysterious devices, and explained to her that with the new, the old is lost: he personally does not fixes machines anymore but diagnoses them; and the new washing machines connects with smartphones, don’t spin.
Angry at the washing machine, at the technician and at the world in general, Marina vented to Adam Katsoukis because she knew he would understand. In all this drama, the component of time passing and bringing morbid news is another thorn added to the crown of the originals.
Adam replied with those half-poems of his:
New noses don’t smell
New ears don’t hear
New mouths don’t speak
New legs don’t walk
So consequently the new washing machines do not wring the clothes. In this new order of things, I’m walking desperately somewhere near the trash to see if I can find anything old and feel human…
Hence the idea of this short film, Nobody, in which everything is real as you see it and at the same time dreamlike: the surreptitiously recorded voice of Adam’s mother who really asks a friend if it is possible to take him to a priest to have him exorcised; Adam, who like a sort of autistic Jesus really lives in the space between the sky and the sea, alone, trying to be forgiven at least by matter. The expectations weighing on his shoulders finally slipped away, the duty to be unique merging with being everything and nothing.
We really are in Greece and the island in the background could be Ithaca, but it doesn’t matter anymore.
Director: Marina Kalogirou
Nobody: Adam Katsoukis
Foto: Nikos Koustenis
Screenplay: Kostas Fotinos, Adam Katsoukis, Marina Kalogirou
Montaggio: Marina Kalogirou, Nikos Koustenis
Music: “Seeing” Theodoros Lembesis – “Arcobaleno” Arold Harlen, Alberto Cursi – “Georgian traditional song” Beso Rostiashvili
Production: Oneness Act
With excerpts from the book “Ulysses never traveled” by Kostas Foteinos