Project Detail

The Parents' Room

Name: The Parents' Room
Director: Diego Marcon
Genre: Experimental, Horror, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Released: 2021
Duration: 11 min

Synopsis

In a bedroom, perched on the edge of an unmade bed, a man looks out of a window at the falling snow. A blackbird settles on the windowsill and strikes up a song which comes to form a melody over which the man begins to sing of the murders of his wife and two little children. One by one, his son and daughter appear, and his wife turns, each sings a verse of their own. The man then tells of his own suicide. Finally, the blackbird flies away and the man returns to gazing out of the window.
Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2021 - Directors' Fortnight - World premiere

Details

Year: 2021
Type of project: Shorts
Running time: 11 min
Format: 35mm
Director: Diego Marcon
Producer: Jacqui Davies
Co-Producer: Camilla Romeo
Editor: Diego Marcon
Screenwriter: Diego Marcon
Director of Photography: Pierluigi Laffi
Production Designer: Lorenzo Cianchi
Sound: Federico Chiari
Composer: Federico Chiari
Principal cast: Massimiliano Balduzzi, Chiara Serangeli, Beatrice Giavarini, Huey Lockwood

Genre

Experimental Horror Drama Fantasy Sci-Fi

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

UK, Italy co-production

Primitive Film (UK), Incurva (IT), Museo Madre – Fondazione Donnaregina per le arti contemporanee (IT)

Primitive Film

Jacqui Davies

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