‘Hermes’ is the title of a video lasting seventy-two hours, distributed in nine monitors, each lasting approximately eight hours.
The 2006 video was born from the elaboration of a film that the author had shot between 1969 and 1970 in black and white 8 mm film and edited into a 42-minute medium-length film.
In the early years of the 21st century, the author decided to change the nature of the film and, with the support of digital technologies, dilated the length of the film to the extreme limit, thus cancelling the perception of the individual frames, each of which is now subject to a complete cross-fade.
In this context, both the narrative content of the original film and the editing of the sequences are cancelled, with all that this implies in the spatio-temporal reading of the behaviours described in the causal play of shadows.
The work, as a whole, expresses the order of duration, the simultaneous fragmentation of the story and the impossibility of recomposing its meaning. The reflection that Hermes proposes touches on the complexity and indeterminable mutability of reality, never so necessary and topical as in our time.