Sole nero2004

"The only Star is dead, and the black Sun is imprinted on the starry lute Of Melancholy "

Gerard de Nerval, El Desdichado

"By composing the rhythmic scores of the images of Black Sun I pursued “a beauty of power”, as the poet Pierre-Jean Jouve writes, rather than a beauty of harmony, drawing light sculptures that unfold over time and are engraved in the night of the retina according to optical-luministic scores regulated by the laws of an inner metric.

In addition to a reinterpretation of pre-cinema, from Muybrigde to Plateau, it tries to reproduce the generative moment of the image, between stasis and dynamism, and to the cinema of the counterpoint that between image and sound, like Oskar Fischinger, Sole Nero (Black Sun) also constitutes the point of confluence of my multimedia work: with images of reality, painting on film, graphic creations, animations and hyperkinetic editing: all illuminated by the conception of a "cinema of poetry", under the aegis of Gerard de Nerval, from a verse of which I took the title Sole nero (thus welding an open circle more than 20 years ago with my Aurélia, inspired by Nerval's prose poem).

The atomic explosion of a black sun, a metaphor for a cosmic force of destruction / creation, reverberates its incandescent colors in the dark room of the mind ... Nuclei of frames like musical suites, regulated by the law of counterpoint and leitmotiv. The black pauses that, as in Robert Bresson, mark the rhythm of the visions, the intermittences of the story. Two and a half minutes of “atomic cinema”: a compressed filmic time, a “Proustian” time, contracted and expanded like a satori. And, in contrast to this world of origins, studded with light and darkness, animated by stroboscpic palpitations and interior illuminations, the eighteenth-century music of Vivaldi, which celebrates the Dionysian euphoria of Summer. "

( Arcangelo Mazzoleni, Work diaries, 2003 )