© True Colours
Open space – in cooperation with “poetry”
Since his childhood, Orfeo has made up fantastic stories about an abandoned villa opposite his home. A lonely pianist, he meets the young Eura one evening at Polypus, the club where he regularly plays. A strong, absolute love develops, but one day Eura disappears, swallowed up by an absence that Orfeo cannot explain.
One night, he sees her enter the abandoned villa through a small door. He follows her. When he crosses the threshold, he finds himself in a visionary world populated by beings such as the Melusines, the Forest Wizard and skeleton parades….
Orfeo was born from Dino Buzzati’s Poema a fumetti, a work I immediately felt close to in its imagery and evocative power. It became an opportunity for me to blend languages cultivated over time – including artisanal animation, experimental cinema, and optical techniques – into a symbolic and sensorial tale. I wanted to create it by thinking of cinema as a place of dreams, where the viewer embarks on a dreamlike journey… (Virgilio Villoresi – Directors Statement)
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