Prize awarded by the jury composed of: Julia Draganovic, Vahram Mkhytarian i Artur Tajber.
The Divine Way reflects on the themes of identity and self-discovery journey in relation to architecture and landscape. The director's artistic intention was to make a film that takes place only in staircases and that expresses emotions translated into pictures. The film was shot in fifty different locations and collects some of the most impressive staircases in Germany. Symbolically, a stairway always suggests a journey. In psychoanalysis, staircases often represent the subconscious and twisting landscapes of our personalities that can turn us in so many different and contrasting directions.Loosely based on Dante’s Divine Comedy, the film depicts the mystical path of life’s journey, which sometimes pushes us into total darkness, in order to see where the light truly comes from.
Ilaria Di Carlo is a visual artist working in the fields of experimental film, video art and performance. She graduated from the Fine Arts Academy in Rome and from the prestigious Central Saint Martin’s in London. She subsequently studied Film at the SAE Institute of Berlin.
Her current artistic work focuses on making moving images and experimental films that explore the theme of journey and identity in relation to landscape and architecture. Her filmography includes the short films The Black Book of L., In Search of Lost Time and the award winning short film The Divine Way, filmed in 50 different locations around Germany. She lives and works in Berlin.