Nessuno

Nessuno is a Western without actors. Built as a journey through landscapes and constructed spaces, the film borrows the architecture of the genre - the butcher shop, the bank, the saloon, the church - while removing the human figures that usually carry its drama. What remains is the trace of violence itself: violence between humans, against other species, and against the land.

The film follows an unseen protagonist through a sequence of deserted settings, where every place seems to retain the memory of conquest, extraction, and disappearance. The presence of Native American tipis anchors the work within the foundational myths of the Western, and within a broader history of colonization and dispossession.

Rather than staging action, Nessuno lets tension emerge from the landscape: dust rising, wind crossing the frame, silence becoming unstable. Its cyclical structure allows the viewer to enter the film at any point - in a moment of calm or in a sudden crescendo - like being born into a world already shaped by war, peace, and their repetition.

The score, composed by Romain Poirier, follows this movement, emerging after moments of turmoil and gradually taking on an almost hallucinatory quality. Through this empty Western, Nessuno becomes a meditation on a world built on recurring cycles of conquest, violence, and erasure.