BIANCA LOIACONO
writerdirectorartisti think you are a darling heart
OTTO ANNI
IN PRODUCTION BIANCA LOIACONO
short film 12 minutes
— producer Eyvonne Carfora
IN PRODUCTION : SUBMISSSION ST KILDA FILM FESTIVAL 2027
A short film in three studies, set in the outer eastern suburbs of Melbourne in the early 1990s. Drawn from my childhood as an eight-year-old Australian Italian girl, Otto Anni celebrates a trio of real life in passing through the eyes of Nicola, Spoken in Italian, the film orients a familiar world in a language inherited rather than learned. The Italian is an armature, braiding the world of Australian suburbia through another language, making the familiar strange, and childhood’s logic its own kind of translation. Otto Anni explores the poetry and peculiar interpretation of childhood, where moments take on their own significance and the everyday can shift unexpectedly into beauty, absurdity or horror.
Le Margherite An uphill dawdle to school. Daisy petals, one by one. A small ritual along a familiar stretch of suburban road. Torte di Fango A lawn, a collection of found things, mud shaped into something valuable. The serious business of making from nothing. Sangue The family gathers around the sausage mincer. An afternoon of mincing, interrupted by an accident. Three fragments of childhood, held within the textures of suburban life: the mud, the daisies, the blood. The film shifts into a postscript, moving backwards through the three studies. The transition blurs the distinction between the film’s present and what follows, with Nicola’s voice and intonations carrying through the shift. The familiar returns, altered by the passage of time.