WHEN YOU DIE
Alessandra Fochesato
Alessandra Fochesato
WHEN YOU DIE
BA final project09:05 min, short film, 2021
„When You Die“ is a documentary film about skateboarding in Berlin and the author’s thoughts on mourning. Through the use of a plan sequences, the film creates a contemplative vision on skateboarding with the aim of making the moments of young skaters’ daily lives sacred. Every place where skateboarding is practised becomes a way for the artist to remember her brother, who loved skateboarding.
The places and the moving bodies of the young skaters become monuments. The continuity and length of the shots allow to watch the nonfictional choreography of the skaters: falling, flying, rising and falling. Every skater experiences and invents a personal relationship to architecture and public space with their skateboard. Not only a purely emotional relationship, but also a physical one, as the skaters touch and become part of the architecture and infrastructure.