A police inspector comes into contact with people of all types and dispositions during a grueling murder investigation.
Social & External
The people behind it
Pietro Germi
Il Dott. Ingravallo
Claudia Cardinale
La servetta, Assuntina
Franco Fabrizi
Il cugino
Cristina Gaïoni
La matta
Claudio Gora
Il marito
Eleonora Rossi Drago
L'assassinata, Signora Balducci
Saro Urzì
Il Maresciallo P.S.
Nino Castelnuovo
L'elettricista, Diomede
Gianni Musy
Ladro Retalli
Peppino De Martino
Il Dott. Fumi
Crystal World is inspired by J.G Ballard’s apocalyptic science fiction novel of the same name where a viral crystal metamorphoses trees, animals, humans and architecture into frozen jewels forever suspended in time and space. The novel is a haunting portrait of a world in which everything is illuminated by prismatic light, a ‘leaking’ of time that causes humans to experience individual moments endlessly looped, repeated and prolonged. My film adapts this concept of crystallization and applies it to fragments from the 1955 film. I reconstruct scenes from Charles Laughton’s iconic film with underwater puppets, which I then crystallize using ammonium phosphate crystals, time-lapse photography, mirrors, prisms, and projectors. (http://piaborg.com)
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