Luca Ferri's 'Ab Ovo' Explores the Concept of Home at Filmmaker Festival

Luca Ferri's film 'Ab Ovo' premiered at the Filmmaker Festival, presenting a visual poem that reimagines the concept of home as a primordial desert. Shot in super8, the film features nine long takes of the desert at the border between Morocco and Algeria, with Adam and Eve appearing as distant blue and red shapes. The work emphasizes raw image and sound, with a harmonic chant evolving into a whispered narration recounting the origin of the world. The article also reflects on how other artists—Diane Arbus, Giorgio Morandi, and Chantal Akerman—conceptualized home. Arbus dreamed of a glass house to observe the grotesque; Morandi's daily practice in his Bologna studio focused on painting bottles in natural light; Akerman's characters inhabit transient spaces like hotel rooms. Ferri's film is produced by ENECE Film and was screened at the Filmmaker Festival, where the bright photography illuminated the audience.