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Giacomo Esposito – Seen

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There is much to see in Seen, a multi-layered short about an egocentric artist who becomes an obsessive voyeur of the couple across the street. 

It’s a subtle send up of the blindness of a poet, convinced of his perceptive powers, who fails to spot not only the realities of life, but that his own relationship requires attention.

His failure to really 'see' his girlfriend is symbolised in her unseenness – at first she is heard not seen, then viewed as a reflection in a mirror. It’s also a comment on filmmaking itself – what does the camera see that the viewer at first can’t see? 

With a nod to Hitchcock’s Rear Window it captures the thrill of imagined skulduggery viewed dimly through apertures.

It is full of atmospheric detail – trees rustle mysteriously in the space between the neighbours’ abodes – it ultimately turns the tables on the watcher who becomes the watched.

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