Director's Works
Graduated from the University of Bologna’s DAMS (Arts and Music Arts), Bruno Nogarotto began creating his first videos and short films in 2019. In 2020, he turned his focus to music videos, collaborating first with emerging artists and later with major record labels such as Sony and Universal Music. Between 2020 and 2021, he moved to Milan, where he continued to develop his visual language through projects for brands including Off-White and Adidas. Today, his work moves between the worlds of fashion and music, while he continues to pursue personal projects and write new short films.
At the center of the story is an elderly artisan, filmed in her workspace as she handcrafts a Scarosso shoe. The camera focuses on the details, following the slow, precise movements of her hands, transforming them into the film's true visual language. The wrinkles, the skin, the pressure of her fingers on the materials become landscape and experience.
In voiceover, the woman shares an intimate truth about her craft: after a lifetime of work, she no longer needs to look at a shoe to know if it's finished. She simply touches it. "I feel it with my hands," she says. It's a phrase that encompasses memory, knowledge, and an almost emotional connection with the object.
The film eschews production rhetoric and focuses on the human dimension of making, transforming an artisanal process into a sensorial portrait of time, experience, and the transmission of knowledge. The shoe is not just a product, but the meeting point between material and memory.
A silent tribute to those who, far from the spotlight, continue to shape Italian excellence through repeated, patient, and profoundly human gestures.
