IFFR Sound//Vision – DIsINCARNATE
DIsINCARNATE (I – III) by Cristina Nisticò, 2025 (Italy)
In Hiroshima and Nagasaki, bodies were vaporized by nuclear flash, leaving only shadows burned into stone. In DIsINCARNATE, Cinzia Nisticò presses human skin and hair directly into 16mm film emulsion, asking whether a trace can become a different form of life. The projected figure appears, disappears, and transforms across two parts: emerging as an unstable silhouette, then unravelling like colliding particles while optical sound inscribed onto the filmstrip produces its mechanical, almost human voice, layered with live trumpet by Igor Iofe. Drawing on quantum physics, the work imagines existence as a field of probability, a body in superposition occupying multiple states at once, brought to life through light.
Text by Tim Leyendekker // WORM
