The Dispute

Giulio Squillacciotti
2021

The mood of the film is that of a bare theatrical representation that lives only on its characters. A daily street verbal brawl is portrayed in a performative act with no beginning nor end. Seems like somebody is about to fight, but they never get to that, or are they? The scene takes place somewhere for a whatever reason, in a cycled loop of gestures and expressions. Some are watching, some others take pictures, while a woman tries to calm the clash down.

About the artist:
Giulio Squillacciotti is a Roman-born artist and filmmaker whose work is oriented mainly on the invention and mutation of traditions. He studied Medieval Art History in Rome at Sapienza University, where he graduated in Humanities, and at the UB University of Barcelona. He later owned a MA in Visual Arts from the Venice University of Architecture IUAV. He was a fellow resident at the Jan Van Eyck Academie in Maastricht and one of the artist of the Dutch pavilion of the 18th Venice Biennale of Architecture.