I couldn’t tell when it started. Simply, at some point, I couldn’t imagine the future anymore. Where do you see yourself in five years? And in ten? I don’t see myself, I can’t picture myself. Completely unable to project myself into a role, an outfit, a living room, into a city. Or a perspective. This, for me, is the concrete manifestation of (my) depression. The impossibility of imagining myself in a place or space. A static entity with a natural predisposition to melancholy and deep roots in the capitalist fabric of our century, in the generation of memes, black humor, and fierce irony that becomes redemptive. ‘Still Alive’ reflects all this, exploring the various phases that the depressed body goes through, between the rejection and acceptance of a condition that is not only personal but human. A composition that tastes like ‘still life’, a still nature that allows to be observed by the viewer, helpless in its impossibility. Without ever forgetting, quoting Van Gogh, that ‘There is no blue without yellow and orange,’ and this is my attempt to bring out the light. Probing the abyss, only to rise again.
As long as we’re here.
As long as we are, indeed, still alive.
author and director Caterina Marino
with Caterina Marino, Lorenzo Bruno
assistant director Marco Fasciana
video creator Lorenzo Bruno
with the support of Florian Metateatro
Segnalazione Speciale Premio Scenario 2021
Finalista Premio In-Box 2023 (Menzione In-Box Generation)
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Caterina Marino is an actress and writer from Rome. In 2021, she was the writer, director, and performer of ‘Still Alive,’ a project that won the Special Mention at the Scenario Prize 2021 and was a finalist for the In-Box Prize 2023. Alongside her on stage and in the videos is Lorenzo Bruno, a visual artist and video creator. Assisting her in direction is Marco Fasciana, a director and writer. It’s not a constituted company, but rather intertwined artistic paths.