I'm getting back in touch

Mattia Pascal is trapped in a non-place of contemporary solitude, a limbo between life and death created by the absence of his true digital identity. How would he cope with his solitude today? Marginalization confines him to a dialogue with AI-DA, his only true interlocutor left. Who would we be today without a virtual profile? Could we say we are nonexistent to society and therefore, perhaps, dead? The protagonist initially experiences his non-existence as a liberation, but realizes that the absence of a profile would, in fact, lead him to a death not far removed from his real one. Mi rifaccio vivo aims to explore the tenuous boundary between solitude and death, normalizing the desire for it and updating a character who presents numerous parallels with current events.

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Inspirational character

The Late Mattia Pascal, from the novel by L. Pirandello

Interpreters

Francesco Daglia, Benedetta Iele

Scenography

Pierino Marangon

Support

APS LaRibalta, Robi Lombardi, Marta Raciti, Marianna Marangon

To Bio, to his self-irony and his "outside" eye, in the hope that one day he may come back to knock on my door.

Duration

12 min