In an undefinable place and time we see a group of children who don’t use words anymore. They might have lost them due to powerful voice-stealing magnets, or dissolved by lose-voice candies. The words seem to be lost, forgotten somewhere. So, they start to transform and develop a new system of communicating made of aerial forms, sharp gazes or shared thoughts. Looking at them, one would think that they would speak with their noses, their elbows, their pupils.

The film is the result of a one-year workshop and collective research with the children of Farfallopoli (1B IC Gino Strada, Torino) about the languages of childhood, the power of silence and other forms of non-verbal communication used as gestures of refusal and ways to build spaces of autonomy against the communicative canons dictated by the world of adults. The content, the script, the costume and so on are the result of this process. The work was produced by Cripta747 (Torino), in the context of the Research Fellowship and Residency Programme 2022.

“In a colourful world, children who have enigmatically lost all words are experimenting with sound and language. A roar, a glimpse, a gesture or a move create interactions and discourses. The history of a new way of talking is thus narrated. Adele Dipasquale shows the infinite possibilities of communication that spring from the human imagination. A powerful statement against the ever-growing homogeneity of our world, told with a grace that only children possess. – Rebecca De Pas, IFFR”