I came across this project during a period of self doubt and questions about the meaning of my career and personal relationships. I felt a "quiet darkness" lurking around the corner and I was looking for something that could help me explore it. I met the director of IRA, Mauro Russo Rouge, thanks to my dear friend sound designer Paolo Armao and after seeing the film he was working on I fell in love with the rarefied atmosphere of muffled emotions and distant echoes of a happiness that will never be truly achieved. IRA is a story about inner sadness and calm desperation, told through an unorthodox cinema language that privileges the use of hand held camera, natural light and long sequences without dialogues.
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