Last year we had a “vision” for the project and a selection of unusual, although not yet definitive, characters. Over the course of the year, having decided to transform the protagonist into a “tombarolo” (tomb robber), we carried out a research into the world of tomb robbers and the black market for illegal artefacts using books, magazines, on-line articles and interviews with people in the field. This work has materialised in the treatment of A Backwards Journey, more literary than visual, precisely because it is focused on the description of a realistic world, of its mechanisms, and of its characters’ traits in relation to the world they belong to.
Currently our aim is to reach a conclusion to the story which involves a common destiny for all the characters, intertwining their paths. On the one hand, we are developing the relationship between the protagonist (Vanni) and his wife; on the other, we are pushing forward the secondary love plot between two of the main characters (Giò and Ljuba), building up a plot which is capable of constantly interacting with the landscape and evoking the great Italian tradition of Masks.