The Veranda
Synopsis
The Veranda is about a young artist, Victor, who tries to find silence in his actions and work. He finds it in dialogues with nature; he becomes obsessed and devotes his life to 'The Gaps', which to him become a mystical separate world that defy comprehension. Diving into this discipline, he loses his wife Josy, his friends and everything else in his life.
The actions Victor performs to find these Gaps are seen worldwide; cleaning sections of desert, or walking a mile and watering the parched land, just to see what happens. He places a tree in ice, cleans shadows on the road laid down by trees, polishes rocks at Whitby, and takes 1000m of string across a huge valley to make a Stringbridge - These performances, actions or Happenings are all to find something 'other'.
We meet Victor before and after his fifteen year quest. After various meetings with Charlie, who comes from the silent world he strives for, Victor has to decide between the faith of his Gaps and his last links to humanity, his sister Mina and his daughter Jo.
Winner - Best Foreign Feature Award, Los Angeles Independent Film Festival 2002.
Details
- Year
- 2003
- Type of film
- Features
- Running Time
- 84 mins
- Format
- Beta SP
- Director
- Marco Zaffino
- Producer
- Marco Zaffino
- Editor
- Robert Allen, Marco Zaffino
- Screenwriter
- Marco Zaffino
- Director of Photography
- Mike Shrimpton
- Sound
- Becki Zaffino
- Music
- Marco Zaffino, Dave Young, Jeremy Perkins, Ed Boxall
- Principal Cast
- Zoe Pirie, Marco Zaffino, Tina Di Maio, Christina Denham, Dan Bembridge
Genre
Production status
Complete
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Last updated 4th May 2021
