Showing today at the Venice Film Festival: Daimon and Cock-Crow, directed by David Zamagni and Nadia Ranocchi
Synopses (of a sort) from the Venice Film Festival’s website:
Daimon
Daimon is a sort of filmed screenplay for a visionary imaginary biography of Georges Bataille. Daimon is an invitation to open your eyes to the point of nausea, to consider eroticism gravely and tragically. Eros is the daimon par excellence, but the term does not simply indicate a divine figure, its etymon evokes the lacerator, the one who divides and breaks up. The leitmotiv of Daimon is therefore tension, a conflict impossible to resolve which is intrinsic to human nature, insoluble nature as the source of glory and ecstasy, of laughter and tears. Eroticism, sacrifice, joy, horror and death are the elements that determine the division of Daimon into sequences. The sum belongs to the sphere of the impossible.
Cock-Crow
Every era generates and cultivates its dragon. Mysterious unknown powers that determine the simplest everyday gestures of a humanity deprived of any natural quality, men for whom their own bodily existence becomes a ruthless battlefield. A depth that is impossible to gauge and therefore admitted to participate in the economy of the sacred. Cock-Crow materializes the dreams of a boy who is guilty of what he sees. It is the fall into an anterior world, a place of non-consolatory object-images.
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