Giulia Achenza's XXX Bag: A Digital Erotic Calendar

Giulia Achenza has released a new video work titled 'XXX Bag,' conceived as a digital erotic calendar. The film weaves a poetic and visionary narrative where characters alternate in constructing love stories month by month. Its storytelling blends disparate languages, from photo novels to TV commercials, music videos, and the cinema of auteurs like Godard and Chris Marker. The work focuses on the multifaceted secrets and desires of the female universe, symbolized by ambiguous, monstrous bags that recall Cronenberg's sci-fi devices and AES+F's zoomorphic creatures. These bags function as status symbols that transcend mere objects to become living, pulsating entities—erotic extensions of their wearers, portals to an intimacy free from predetermined orientations and prejudices. The video was produced by GiGi creative production and Basement quarter, and features digital experimentation by artists Federica Intelisano, Diletta Guidolin, Andrea Colacicco, and Mattia Sincinelli, who employed techniques such as datamoshing, photogrammetry, and 3D animation to bring the XXX Bags to life.