A Thunderbolt for Michelle

Speak To Me Of What I Know

February 2023 •English

Speak To Me Of What I Know is a short experimental film shot on a Super8. The idea of lack of communication is expressed through an intimate relationship, more specifically the men of the film. The themes of miscommunication develop throughout the film in many ways, even the slightest details are there with the explicit goal of adding to the main message. Pay attention to as much as you can, and build your idea of what it's all about. It remains up to interpretation.

At the Passage of Ziletia

Invalid date •Turkish

Ahmet, a Turkish guy in his early twenties visit his grandfather's abandoned mansion located somewhere in the northern Anatolia. Thinking that he would return to where he spent his early childhood, only to find out that the place is now in ruins. When he goes to sleep. An unexpected angel will visit him to give her a blessing of the truth. He wakes up being not the guy he was before.

Admissions of Desire

September 2023 •English

A man and a woman talk on the phone and express their feelings and desires for each other for the first time. We watch as they listen to the other's admissions.

Kiss For Me

Invalid date •English

Maya excitedly leans into the joy of her first queer relationship, but must confront the seemingly never-ending sexualisation of her identity

Macabre

Invalid date •English

A sleep paralyzed woman confronts her demons.

I've Soiled Myself Again

June 2024 •English

A man is confronted by parallel versions of himself as he contemplates his life choices.

Flesh in Turmoil

October 2023 •Portuguese

The process of depersonalization maintains a dialogue with the objectification of the body, a sort of thingified flesh, clothed in animosity. In an epiphanic act, the sutures reveal themselves as the reflection of this gaze upon its own spilled fluids and transcend into an internal soup. It is the stream of consciousness in its purest form. It is the raw and the bare. It is the visceral nature of facts. It is the merging of worlds. It is the flesh in turmoil.

Portrait de Rosa, à la française

June 2021 •French

Poetic, delicate, engaging. "Portrait de Rosa, à la française" gently draws you into this passionate love story, with a love text that fits well with the images of Rosa's smiling face. A narrative that recalls the “nouvelle vague” interpreted with today's eyes.

DARKMAN

August 2023 •English

Seeing himself as a form unable to experience intimacy, he is given the chance when brought to the household of twin sisters.

sissi's mixtape (a guide to love, loss & desperation)

June 2025 •English

fragments from song lyrics of different artists have given life to this story about love, loss and desperation.

Mio padre amore mio

January 1979 •Italian

Fede is a theater actress who, while putting on clown make-up for a show, thinks back to her relationship with her father: a relationship of tenderness, desire and hatred.

Lo scialle azzurro

January 1981 •Italian

A woman, director of advertising films, catches the eye of a mysterious young woman dressed in white during an evening of dancing on the terrace of a bar and is fascinated by her.

A Vida em Negativo

Invalid date •Portuguese

La bella addormentata nel bosco

January 1978 •Italian

"What I tried to "tell" is Rosa's close and distorted relationship, common to many women who are used to living alone with themselves, with objects that have become animated and unreal and the relationship which is completely silent, but no less clear and explosive of Rosa with her feminine unconscious” (D. Maraini).

Giochi di latte

January 1979 •Italian

Milk in its symbolic and ancestral dimension is the fulcrum of this short film. Primary source of female nourishment, abundance and life, milk flows, is drunk, steeps and nourishes. The woman-mother is its dispenser, the one who safeguards its vital power. The color of milk, however, also recalls male seminal fluid and the dimension of the sensual exchange between man and woman.

Trio

January 1981 •Italian

Three women leave for a beach holiday. The joy, the carefreeness of days on the beach, lunches on the terrace, lazy afternoons punctuate this "holiday film" which slowly reveals and builds the sensual and playful intimacy of the relationship that binds the protagonists/directors.

Dead Funny

October 2022 •English

A lonely mime takes desperate measures in order to find the audience he deserves.

Fulano de Tal

Invalid date •Portuguese

Island Home Country

August 2008 •English

A poetic cine-essay about race and Australia’s colonised history and how it impacts into the present offering insights into how various individuals deal with the traumatic legacies of British colonialism and its race-based policies. The film’s consultative process, with ‘Respecting Cultures’ (Tasmanian Aboriginal Protocols), offers an evolving shift in Australian historical narratives from the frontier wars, to one of diverse peoples working through historical trauma in a process of decolonisation.

Reverie

March 2022 •English

An experimental portrayal of being adrift in a daydream.