OSLAVIA

In the heart of Rome, an apartment has remained untouched since 1958. It is the home and studio where Giacomo Balla, one of the most important Futurist painters and a leading figure of the early 20th-century European avant-garde, spent the last thirty years of his life. The entire space – from floor to ceiling – was painted, transformed, and personalised by the artist together with his two daughters, Elica and Luce.

In the spring of 2020, amid the COVID-19 lockdown, filmmakers Bêka & Lemoine enter this space, which had remained hidden from the world for more than six decades. The camera follows their slow movements through the rooms, capturing objects, colours, and traces left by time, evoking in the viewer the same sense of wonder experienced by the first explorers of great archaeological sites.

The film is screened alongside Living in a Piece of Furniture.