Pathos (2010)

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Pathos is a 2009 Italian short science-fiction horror film. It was created by the independent Illusion Video Production company. One of the founders of the company, Fabio Prati, also plays the unnamed protagonist in his first screen role. The short was made in the filmmakers' spare time. Set in a dystopian, post-apocalyptic Earth, the film depicts human beings living isolated from one other, slaves of a system of their own invention in control of their senses, thoughts and actions, paying for intense virtual reality "lives" based on a digital copy of human civilisation before its collapse. The short has been compared to the works of Philip K.

Production

In 2003, Genoa-based Illusion Video Productions was founded by Cabella and Ercole, both of whom had several years' experience in the industry. Fabio Prati joined the company in 2007, an illustrator and decorator with a background working on the historical frescoes of major Genoese buildings, one of the most appreciated artists in his field.

The idea for Pathos emerged during development of the company's previous effort, Strane Coincidenze (2002), a mid-length feature made up of three intertwined stories, one of which was to have told the story of a person in an imagined future, forced to pay taxes even on his five senses, but the subject was deemed unsuitable for the Hitchcockian atmosphere of the project, and so the idea was shelved until Cabella and Ercole, now joined by Prati, de…

The screenplay had to be developed in a way that was both feasible and worked with the themes of the film. Preparatory drawings for the sets and costumes came next. The entire film was previsualised and drawn in the form of a storyboard, frame by frame.

If a film of such technical complexity was going to be made on a very limited budget, the filmmakers had to decide how to implement the project and with what equipment. The aim was to visualise, in the smallest details and in the most believable way, the futuristic environment in which the protagonist lives and works.

Prati's make-up, which included the design and construction of silicone "implants" over the top of his head and the false brain graft, required a lot of time and attention. Props were made by the Fabrizio Canu Creative Workshop.

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