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Cosimo Terlizzi’s latest film is suitably called “Folder“, referring to all of the folders on your computer filled with files. Pictures, movies and Word documents, … Bits and pieces of everyday life. Bits and pieces that most people sort alphabetically or chronologically. Most people, but not Cosimo. Cosimo cuts and edits the film fragments in a splintered way. Not into one single storyline, but into different layers, backgrounds and emotions. The information is ellaborate and creates something much larger then ‘just a story’. It creates a ’storyscape’, an immersion.

Although Cosimo uses a small consumer handcam, this isn’t your typical city-trip-movie enjoyed only by those who were there and boring even the closest of relatives. No, thanks to the editing, the score (masterfully composed by Massimo Carozzi), and the diversity of topics touched on in this movie, it becomes something much more universal. These stories, these anecdotes are so powerful and recognisable that they demánd to be shared with a larger audience.

The anecdote that gripped me the most, was the piece where a friend of Cosimo’s talks about her sister’s suicide and how she was the one who found the body. The power of her story lies in the tiny little observations of that moment. The neighbour that stepped in to help undo the cord around her neck, (one more example) …

Having only seen the first finished half of the film, I can’t wait to see what else Cosimo chooses to share with us.

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