Mi Rifaccio Vivo

Mattia Pascal is trapped in a non-place of contemporary solitude, a limbo between life and death caused by the absence of his true digital identity. How would he experience his loneliness today? Marginalized, he is confined to a dialogue with AI-DA, his only remaining conversational partner.

Who would we be today without a virtual profile? Could we be considered nonexistent in the eyes of society and, perhaps, therefore dead? The protagonist initially experiences his nonexistence as a liberation, only to realize that the absence of a profile would, in fact, lead him to a death not far from a real one. Mi Rifaccio Vivo aims to explore the fragile boundary between solitude and death, normalizing its desire and updating a character whose story resonates strongly with contemporary reality.

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Character of inspiration

Il fu Mattia Pascal, from the novel by L. Pirandello

Performers 

Francesco Daglia, Benedetta Iele

Set design 

Pierino Marangon

Support 

APS LaRibalta, Robi Lombardi, Marta Raciti, Marianna Marangon

To Bio, for his self-irony and his “external” eye, in the hope that one day he may knock on my door again

Duration 

12 min