Remote space – Analytical cubism – Freudian psychoanalysis

In an empty and devoid of light space a human being within a spatial module is reaching an unknown destination. The unique connection is a voice on the “radio”. He’s upset and he wouldn’t want to be there.

“Just one last time, then come back”

are the indications of the voice, while the astronaut searches for the mission object outside the vehicle in vacuum, far away from the light of a remote galaxy. A giant black glossy sphere, a supposed asteroid not exactly of natural origin, appears at the sight of the main character. Anchored to it and under the indications of the radio, the man starts a drilling operation with some small but extremely effective instruments while a strange conversation takes hold, despite the man’s reluctance, with personal questions and doubts about the latest events to Earth. Once an opening is created, the astronaut enters into an empty space between the newly drilled surface and another sphere of similar material but of greater hardness. Excavation operations continue while the questions become more and more personal, the answers rare and the unspoken more enigmatic and important. Unique sounds are the constant breathing inside the helmet, a tic indicating the oxygen timer, and the heartbeat as a background. The drilling is getting harder and harder and the layers follow one another, each having a correlation with the questions submitted to the man. Reached a breaking point in the untenable conversation (for the truths that have just been said) and an almost indestructible layer. A crack and a subsequent depressurization of the inside of the sphere make the astronaut slam against the wall above, who loses consciousness. After a few moments of terror due to practically finished oxygen, the protagonist regains consciousness and he faces the truth about the forgotten childhood episode while he is entering the last layer pervaded by a white light. Finally, aware of the trauma that has conditioned all the choices and events of his life, man awakens under the light coming from an open window, lying on a bed, with a metronome that marks the time (the same as oxygen) under the gaze of the psychotherapist sitting next to him. The furnishings of the studio and a cubist painting on the wall, reveal the real epoch, the beginning of the 1900s, bringing the viewer back to a period much earlier than intuited up to this moment.

Note
Trauma is a visual experience that unites the Cubist Artistic Movement with Psychology and Cinematography. Based on a study by the author on Freudian psychoanalysis, the short film will be a visual representation of a childhood trauma narrated in a cinematographic way. The search for memory removed, through a metaphor, will be experienced by the protagonist and the viewer as a mining excavation in an asteroid in deep space. The dialogue between doctor and patient will remain ambiguous and relevant to the mission until the end which will reveal the true nature of the research.