INTERREGNUM

Synopsis

The eyes of the world are watching after the death of a dictator. Albanian artist Adrian Paci constructed Interregnum using footage from official state and national television broadcast archives. Spanning an entire century, the film connects different Communist societies through the shared language of grief. Shifting from close-ups to wider views of the masses, the film makes us witness to a crescendo where the manipulation of these masses and the depersonalisation of individual identity become increasingly evident.

Director Biography

Adrian Paci (1969, Albania) is an artist and filmmaker that lives and works in Milano. He has had many different individual and group exhibitons in museums and galleries all around the world. In 2014 he won the Best International Short Film for his film The Column (2013) at the Arquiteturas Film Festival in Lisbon and in 2016 he won the Art for Peace Award. His short film Interregnum (2017) is also part of an installation, bearing the same name.