A 3-minute feast where every bite unlocks a life. Bring tissues.
In a dark room, a man in his sixties sits before a table laid out with food. The food slowly brings fragments of his past back to the surface.
Direction
Defronzo turns eating into elegiac performance
Cinematography
Chiaroscuro lighting honoring Italian neorealism
Production
Shot at NYU's Casa Italiana with student crew
Director
Andrea Defronzo
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot as a thesis project at NYU Tisch with the actual families of the cast contributing recipes.
Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò historically hosts works on Italian-American identity; this short inverts that by bringing Bari academy students to tell their own transatlantic story.
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