One man. One thread. Twenty years of beautiful obsession.
This is a portrait of Lorenzo, a Florentine artist who has been repeating the creation of the same work of art for more than twenty years: a pliant and pointed blue-yellow-red acrylic "thread."
Cinematography
Patient, intimate observation of repetitive craft.
Direction
Nossiter's quiet, non-judgmental presence.
Director
Jonathan Nossiter
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Nossiter made this between his fiction features; the thread became a metaphor for his own stalled projects.
Lorenzo's colors echo De Stijl and Mondrian—intentional art-historical dialogue or happy accident? He'll never say.
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