A darkroom, a kitchen, a living room to, surrounded by nature, in an olive grove whose trees I have known since I was a child.
This is Luma Experimental Film Lab, a space for hands-on creation in Fermo, Le Marche.
What draws me to analog filmmaking is what happens through the doing: you enter a different physical state, one where the body’s intelligence takes over and leads you toward paths the mind alone could not foresee.
Luma is also a space for sharing knowledge, through screenings, collective creation sessions and workshops, including a collaboration with Adriatikino – the Adriatic Analog Film Exhibition. Daily life, travel and cinema have always blurred into one another for me, and wherever I have been I have facilitated workshops around image-making. Bringing that here, to one of the places I feel most like home, is a natural evolution.
For me, cinema has always been a form of exchange and relation. That is why Luma is also open to other filmmakers through residencies, sharing a workspace as a way to keep that alive.