Uninstalling love

Andrea can’t forget Anna. He is caught in a net of memories of that love. A weird huckster promises him that he will delete any traces of it. The backwards formatting process will, however, make good memories re-emerge and along with them the desire to win her heart back again.

Are you sure you want to remove your files?

Surreal comedy about the end of a love story in the Internet era, Uninstalling love tells us how difficult it can be nowadays, when a relationship ends, to heal from the trauma. In fact, putting all the memories in the back of our mind is not enough: the other’s life must be “uninstalled” from our daily life, from our Smartphone, where we have saved a never-ending list of messages, from our pc and its emails, pictures, videos, from the social networks, which keep showing us photos and friends in common and let us run the risk to turn us into paranoiac cyber stalkers. How is it possible to fight against a system that disowns the right to forget?

Trapped in a net of memories, Andrea puts himself into the hands of a weird huckster, who promises him that he will remove any traces of his ended love for Anna. But the “formatting” process works backwards: by erasing the latest sad memories, the most remote and sweetest ones re-emerge. Andrea is thus confined by the uninstalling process in a limbo where present and past, loneliness and couple’s life are blurred. And what is left of the just deleted memories only feeds his desire to win back his ex girlfriend’s heart.

“The script machine wends its way between the real and the surreal, bringing the story to staggered narrative times, introducing fantastic moments and making the plot curious and unpredictable.

I’ve found interesting on the realistic point of view the exploration of the extreme consequences that the use of current social networks can provoke at the end of a love story.

Uninstalling Love contains very curious narrative elements: a surreal analogical mechanism which steals memories and a place called “limbo” where these memories are enclosed.

The whole making has been exciting. First of all for the photography and the set design: in the moments in which the protagonist’s astonishment becomes drunkenness of the memories by the viewing of surreal locations. Secondly for the editing because the story develops at different time levels, in ever-changing locations and the psychology of the protagonist and the relationship between fiction and reality depends on editing. For the music which plays going into and out of the story, places itself sometimes inside the characters and sometimes almost next to the audience. For the direction which tries to imagine and to reconstruct the world which exists in a person’s mind who loses his critical faculty due to some unbelievable events.

My experience as an editor has helped me a lot. As everybody knows film’s limits and mistakes come out during editing, and as everybody knows in the editing room one can enhance the features of a work where each department is asked to give an original contribution. A good film is a work of a good intent’s sharing of all departments.

An editor knows it well.“

Alessia Scarso

In love wins whoever remains

La Sicilia

February 15, 2014