In the Philosophy of Mind “parallelism” is a dualist theory about the interaction of mind and body, affirming that mental and physical events take place on a parallel course of existence and interact with each other in a non-accidental way. The fact that there is a balance between the two does not mean that one causes the other to do what it does. In the same way, the film shows two worlds, two cities, which seem to exist independently from one another but in fact they communicate through passages, space-time tunnels, bridges between two different dimensions. They are two opposite worlds – utopian and dystopian – and they will, in the end, unify in a “crossbred” world, a fusion of the two which is not their sum but a synthesis, where this new world, generated from the two opposite ones, has a whole new identity.

In Italian “meticcio” (crossbred) derives from the late Latin mixtīcius, to mix, and from this probably comes the French term métis, as the capacity to integrate multiple identities, multiple individualities that form each one of us. The protagonist of the film is a hybrid being, a woman with zippers over her eyes and rose petals growing on her face, as if from a flower. She introduces and closes the film, as if the path of harmonic fusion led by her presence – a crossbreed presence as well – and her tale seems to be a necessary path in order to reach a world full of hope and satisfaction (happiness and joy), a process started from two parallel roads that symbolises the possibility to get to a new crossbreed identity, mixed and unique at the same time.

Category: Animation, Experimental, Music Video, Short

Genres: Sci-fi, Experimental, Short, Animation, Art, VideoArt

Language: English

Format: Digital

Target: Adults

Director Marco Bolognesi

Writer Marco Bolognesi

Producer Bomar Studio

Executive Producer Raffaello Rossini, Marco Bolognesi

Production Supervisor Giusi Santoro

Original Music Score Central Unit

Sound Design 7 Floor S.a.S.