QUADRATURA
3’ 26’’, color, 4/3, 16mm, 2024
Directed by Sara Bonaventura
Sound by Quasai aka Francesco Fonassi
Label Les Giants

Quadratura is the first video – signed by Sara Bonaventura – taken from the album Quasai,
by the sonic artist, performer and independent researcher Francesco Fonassi (Spettro, Villa Recordings, Canti Magnetici),
composed at the EMS in Stockholm on Buchla 200 synthesizers, produced and mixed by Fonassi at IAC, Malmö and Spectro, Brescia.
Inspired by dark ecology and the Mandel’štam’s poem of the voice over, the 16mm film
evokes the loop of systemic predator-prey models, starting from microscopic beings – didinium and paramecium –
passing through plankton, jellyfish, insects, fish, crustaceans and human apex predators.
The found footage comes from a collection of educational films by the American Coronet, Ecological biology,
an attempt to spread ecological thought at the end of the 70s. I intervened analogically on the edited material,
scratching the Darwinian parable highlighting its shadows that obscure the stars,
and so the delicate balance of complex ecosystems.

Featured on:
Los Angeles Super Short Film festival, The Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute, West Hollywood, LA (USA), 2024
Melted Film Festival, Dutch Design Week 2024 Eindhoven (NL), 2024
LABOCINE, CINEMA FROM THE SCIENCE NEW WAVE, October Issue: THE ECOSYSTEM, Bklyn, NYC (US), 2024
Ibrida Festival, Percezioni, Forlì (IT), 2024
Braziers International film Festival, Braziers Park, Oxfordshire (UK), 2024
RUMORE magazine, video premiere, 2024