Cinecittà

With his “Cinecittà” series, Alexandre Morelli tries to overcome the limitations of the single image. The black and white photos he produces are unsatisfactory because he cannot make them say several things at once. Here, he offers the sequence as a possible solution. He takes up what Duane Michals said: “The sum of the images suggests much more than what a single image can,” and inscribes this series in a cinematographic narrative. The image titles (01:14 pm, 06:06 pm, etc.) suggest a chronology that will serve as a “timeline” for the entire narrative framework. In these 10 images, Alexandre Morelli tells a disturbing tale where Roman light (all the photos were taken in Rome) washes over a story that is somewhere between Matteo Garrone's “Gomorra” and David Lynch's “Mulholland Drive.”