Astraphobia trailer from djamo on Vimeo.
Astraphobia / 2015
voices:
Deneth Piumakshi (Sri Lanka)
M (Italy)
Huda Takriti (Syria)
Oana Vainer (Germany)
Christina Kasapa (Greece)
Minia Biabiany (Guadaloupe)
original music: Alim Isker
director: Daniel Djamo
running time: 23 minutes
I was always afraid of lightning bolts. I find it hard to understand exactly why.
Maybe it was the brutal beauty that scared me and the screams resulted from the fight between the clouds.
I used to hear stories about people being hit by lightning while they were working the fields.
This scared me a lot.
I was afraid that this would happen to me too.
Thus, each time there was a lightning storm I stayed indoors.
I would see the white lines of the sky behind a window.
I used to feel safe in my room.
Then I turned 15.
Without knowing, I was no longer safe.
Although I had a shelter, I was no longer protected.
It happened.
I got hit by lightning.
11 times in 6 months.
I was first hit while I was laying in my bed.
I had my TV on.
A Robbie Williams concert was on HBO.
It was night. Around 1 o’clock.
I found myself guided into a dream, while distancing myself from the noise created by the television.
As I was lost on the pathways of my mind, I got choked to reality.
I felt overwhelmed by a malicious demon.
Something was breathing fumes of nothingness before my eyes, in the darkness that I could see.
The demon scratched his lust for my body over my hands, with a palsy love.
My legs were cut with soft hatchets.
My face was pulled off with hot pliers.
It started ripping from my right jaw.
It clenched around my left cheekbone.
I started seeing the lightning bolts.
Strong green and purple.
Green and purple.
No face.
No hands.
No legs.
Green and purple.
No face.
No hands.
No legs.
Green and purple.
And then nothing.
special thanks: The Romanian Cultural Institute (ICR)