YKK 2018

The second chapter in the series produced for Harim, Accademia Euromediterranea in Catania, built around student designs using YKK zips.

Filming was split between two opposite environments: the interiors of a private house and the Oasi del Simeto nature reserve, at the mouth of the river Simeto in the province of Catania. The reserve is a wetland of dunes, reed beds and river mouth, one of the few habitats of its kind left on Sicily’s eastern coast.

The two-location structure is not a logistical accident but the engine of the film. A domestic space is enclosed and measured, with light entering through openings and falling where it happens to fall; a reserve at a river mouth is open, with no readable boundaries, full light and wind. A garment behaves differently in the two places — it stays still in one, it moves in the other — and the edit can use that gap as rhythm.

It is also the chapter that narrows the series geographically: after a first film shot in scattered locations, here everything gathers around Catania.

The other chapters in the series are YKK 2016, YKK 2019 and YKK 2021.