La Necesidad y el Deseo (Need and Desire)
8′ 24″ | Spain, Italy | Super 8 → digital | Color | 2026
A gesture of erasure. A spell.
If you lift the emulsion from a photograph, destroy its surface, transplant it onto a new body, does the memory it carried survive?
Need and Desire originates from this question, and from the poetic belief that making a film can alter reality. The cinematic act becomes incantation: a process that destroys and reconstructs simultaneously. Still memories become an “emulsional” landscape.
Need and Desire is a cameraless handmade film exploring the materiality of emulsion through instant photographs lifted and transplanted onto a Super 8 polyester base of recycled film scraps.
Screenings
Premiere and screenings coming soon
Credits
Director & Producer: Francesca Svampa
Sound artist: Clàudia Baulies