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NONEXISTER A Promise In The Air

An abandoned dance hall on the Abruzzo coast, red and blue light, mirrored columns at the water's edge. The Italian part of the video, built set by set.

Production design
Ultrastudios
Set decorator
Gioia Di Girolamo
Production in Italy
Borotalco.tv
Where
La Silvanella, Silvi Marina · San Benedetto del Tronto
Director
Natascha Vavrina · Dynamic Frame
Shot
November 2022 · released November 2023
NONEXISTER, A Promise In The Air, 2023. Watch on YouTube
La Silvanella, empty: violet mosaic columns, the dome and the abandoned banquettes
La Silvanella, Silvi Marina, before the set.

The project

A video shot across several countries; in Italy, the settings built by Ultrastudios.

For Borotalco.tv's Italian production, Ultrastudios was responsible for the production design of the scenes shot in Abruzzo and the Marche: the settings, the objects, light as a material of the set. Set decorator: Gioia Di Girolamo.

Beneath La Silvanella's dome, in red light: two people on a ladder in the smoke
A group of bodies lying on the floor in red light, beneath the dome

La Silvanella

In Silvi Marina, in the province of Teramo. Born in 1965, when Amerigo Tucci bought an old farmhouse, it became one of the best-known summer dance halls and clubs in central Italy: live concerts, sometimes played inside a huge wooden barrel, and on stage Raffaella Carrà, Ornella Vanoni, Patty Pravo, the Pooh.

It closed around 2008. The set was born among what remains: the dome, the violet mosaic columns, the banquettes, the empty dance floor.

At sunset, mirrored columns planted at the water's edge and a figure against the light in the sea
Columns of light in a blue room
A figure in white smoke, in a blue room with a geometric chandelier

On set

Besides La Silvanella, a venue and a street in San Benedetto del Tronto, and the beach at dawn, with the mirrored columns planted in the water.

Behind-the-scenes photographs, November 2022. The video was released a year later, in November 2023.

The crew at the water's edge at sunrise, among the mirrored columns
The director's monitor framing a scene in a venue
A dancer in smoke, lit from above; on the left, the camera operator
Silhouettes against the light in amber haze

Credits

Production in Italy · Borotalco.tv

Executive producer Matteo Stefani
Line producer Pier Francesco Cari
Production coordinator Tommaso Spagnoli
Producer William Thoelke
Location manager Simone Mambella
1st AD Lorenzo Bramati
Gaffer Filippo Ficozzi
Production design Ultra*studios
Set decorator Gioia Di Girolamo
Stylist Federica Mazzucchelli
Hair & MUA Emanuela Caricato
Casting B Dance Project

Dynamic Frame

Director Natascha Vavrina
Executive producer Luzius Fischer
Producer Philipp Ritler
DOP Tim Bieker
Choreographer Paleta CalmQuality
Cast Madoka Kariya, Gil The Grid

NONEXISTER

Music Marco Neeser & Nik Leuthold
Vocals Nik Leuthold
Production Marco Neeser, Nik Leuthold, Tommy Vetterli

Post: Bela Adami (editor), Unsere Farben (colour), TAPE Vilnius (VFX), Stereotyp (sound design). Full credits on YouTube.

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