A 3-minute feast where every bite unlocks a life. Bring tissues.
A man in his sixties, sitting in a dark room, gazes at the food and touches it on a carefully set table. Each dish evokes the memory of a moment from his life.
Direction
Defronzo turns eating into elegiac performance
Cinematography
Chiaroscuro lighting honoring Italian neorealism
Production
Shot at NYU's Casa Italiana with student crew
Director
Andrea Defronzo
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot as a thesis project at NYU Tisch with the actual families of the cast contributing recipes.
Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò historically hosts works on Italian-American identity; this short inverts that by bringing Bari academy students to tell their own transatlantic story.
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