SYNOPSIS

After the death of my estranged father, I set out to understand our fractured relationship by visiting his family house, the last place where I saw him 8 years ago. Through this journey, the house becomes a place of reconnection with my unstable father and with the universe of my childhood, now defragmented by the passage of time.

INTENTION

Campolivar is an autobiographical docu-fiction film that explores father-daughter dynamics through the reinterpretation of my childhood in the aftermath of my estranged father’s unexpected death.

The setting of the story is Campolivar, my father’s family house. As the place where most of my memories with him are stored, the house becomes a metaphorical universe to dwell into the complex nature of my childhood and of the violence that was hidden under the appearances of the family home.

Merging recreations of my past memories with real archive images, letters, psychological reports, and voice recordings, I intend to capture the universe and atmosphere of an apparently innocent period that hides a background of instability.

This project is born from re-experiencing my own memories. By going back to the house of Campolivar, I dive into the waters of unconsciousness in a home that is inhabited with the ghosts of the past. In this headspace, reality and imagination fade into one another and dreams become a gateway for connection to my dead father after a relationship without any kind of resolution.