Ugo Petronin

Ugo Petronin

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Prison with Songbirds 2022

An unseen narrator tells his experience of wrongful imprisonment in an unnamed country and his random release. Based on a letter sent to Amnesty International, by the filmmaker’s father, and a surreal interview given about it. ‘Prison with Songbirds’ is a documentary and fiction hybrid in which dream-nightmare and digital-celluloid collide.
Ugo Petronin

Ugo Petronin

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Abiding 2019

Taken from a train window, Petronin imprinted manually a single image strip, using a shutterless camera, exposing it to a continuous influx of light. The result is the dissolution of the space between frames, elements of landscape losing their solidity.
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Ninfa Fluida 2024

We listen to an eighteenth-century poem by the Rotterdam bard Dirk Smits, that regales the myth of the Rotte river. While we hear the stream being likened to a shapeshifting nymph, we see images of the mysterious flatworm. Behind this tiny, writhing water creature, lies a wonderous world of regeneration and the microscopically small worm as an important object of scientific study.
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Maas Confusion 2025

An overwhelmed video encoder turns confusion into a cosmological force. Poetry and iridescent cinematography reimagine a walk along the Maas River, where bodies merge and emotions shimmer. Through a technical experiment that misinterprets raw camera signals, the film crafts a perception far removed from the clarity of conventional photography. Guided by Clara Afonso’s visceral poem Corps D’écumes, we are invited to linger in confusion and discover what unfolds when the boundaries of our interpretive frameworks give way.