Dive

“Dive is a nocturnal dream staging a journey of initiation”, explains Bonaventura, “blending classical Mediterranean culture with rituals of the Far East, between Plato’s cave and Hindu funerals by the ocean”. Returning to images of water and aquatic life,
the filmmaker draws on the shared Greek etymology of the words ‘dolphin’ and ‘womb’, configuring this oceanic journey as one of transfiguration and rebirth. It’s this hazy dream logic that Bonaventura captures perfectly in the layered imagery and distorted visual effects of the video, weaving together a somnambulist landscape through which we can explore Stromboli’s sounds. FACT magazine

Dive is an initiation journey, blending gestational waters from Venice, VHS waves in Sardinia, Hong Kong waterfront, Hindu funerals by the ocean in Bali, dolphins in Australia. It consists of a collection of personal footage shot in different years of my life. A transformative watery embodiment bridging different bodies of water, between East and West, but also a Hypersea inspired by Hydrofeminism, where our own bodies represent the threshold, between past and future, human and non-human.

Official video for the Italian experimental musician Stromboli, from his solo album Ghosting.