Roberto Paranoico

A short film

During my first months in London, back in 2009, I experienced an initial period of isolation, struggling to adapt to the new life and finding ways to express my creativity and personality. I was living in a frustrating limbo, far from the past and far from the future.

I ended up shutting myself at home and, in the desperate need of self-expression, I made an amateur short-film using the footage I shot during my Christmas trip back to Palermo, as well as some shots in my flat in London.

‘Roberto Paranoico’ (literally meaning 'Paranoid Roberto') ended up expressing personal feelings which I didn’t even know that were there. In the following months, I felt as if I had become the character of that film. However, in truth, the film had simply allowed me to preview a transformation which was already happening in me at an unconscious level.

The video format and quality are poor, since at that time I had little technical knowledge of the medium.
The English subtitles, added about 15 years ago, reflect my low English levels of that time.