Mind and body, two aspects of the same unity. However, sometimes the harmony gets broken, this unity starts fragmenting. The heart begins to race, the throat constricts, the breath becomes laboured, there’s no control, nothing is familiar anymore, everything is menacing.
This intense short  video blends text, movement and  original music to give body and voice to the inner discomfort. It’s very subtle and too often unheard, yet permeates our lives in this complex time.

Panic attacks, they are that sneaky enemy inside ourselves, always ready to trigger off when we less expect it. They are  the monster  that restricts our vital and personal space, that puts all of us in a vulnerable condition, we are ashamed of. Our perception of reality gets distorted, all those daily things that used to be familiar to us, the activities we considered normal till that moment before experiencing an attack, suddenly become a mountain to climb. It feels like having to learn how to walk again, step by step, trying to regain the ground to live on.
The more we investigate it, the more we realise it’s not just happening to us. There are  many of us who’s lives have fallen apart because of this experience. But at the same time, our loved ones, our friends, often even our parents and family  are not really capable to deeply understand what’s going on: “it’s all in your head”, “you can beat it”, “ you can control it” and NO WE CAN’T CONTROL IT, OTHERWISE WE WOULD! So we find ourselves pushed in a corner of unspoken feelings, incapable of even trying to communicate what’s going on inside us, sure that it will go unheard once again.
This project would like to show, through the impact of images and the strong metaphor of movements, both what kind of distorted relationship happens with reality during an attack, leaving the victim in a lonely place which is hard to escape from, and that it’s possible to find a “way out” from that life changing experience.

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The film concept​