Nothing About Me
Synopsis
"I'm no one. You know nothing about me. I'm a passenger, a
sailor, a valet, an officer, a cook, a technician. I'm european,
american, asiatic, african. Tomorrow I won't be here, but I will seem
like I'm here now and every time. My life crosses other people's lives,
who are like me, everyone and anyone. I through the seas in a travel
that becomes perpetual motion; that becomes human flow animating a
floating city; I become sap that pulsates on the decks, in the
corridors, in the sparkling halls, between the jets of water in the
swimming pools. I'm a multitude with no history and no identity. Through
my shadow projected on the bulkheads, through my profile drawn in the
light, through my silhouette repeated in a endless mirror game, I tell
you my story, which is the story of a thousand, an hundred thousand
people. I become one body in the apparent chaos of a cruise ship, big
beast to which, although for a short time, I belong. A maternal womb, a
home in which every man is an island."
Like spying through a keyhole, I project myself
into the lives of the passengers and crew of a big cruise ship. Through
my camera I observe this multitude of people, always the same and always
different, giving rise to a huge and cosmopolite isolated society on
the seas. Every year in Europe, cruise ships carrying more than 100,000
passengers. This is fascinating: the cruise ship, a bright and sparkling
city in the sea, is the smallest container with the largest
concentration of people from all over the world. People always
different, divided into "social" categories, following strict rules,
living in a tiny space. So, whoever you are, whatever your life or your
history is, here, on the sea, you lose your identity to become part of a
huge mechanism that runs cyclically, which is renewed in a continuous
motion. You become one body, everyone and anyone, deprived of any
connection with reality and with your being.
