A Vanishing Column Floats

‘A Vanishing Column Floats’ is a film inspired by the quest for the legendary third column of San Marco, a pillar lost in the waters facing the square upon its arrival from the Eastern Mediterranean, somewhere in the 12th century. Composed as a visual poem, the film contemplates the possible existence of the third column through the material substances of the city-island. The cinematic eye wanders like a marble periscope upon stones and waters –symbols of Venetian memory– and imagines the lost pillar in a reverie between the states of being conscious and unconscious, between the image seen and the image unseen, between banal sights and eternal mystery.