“The Possible Ties Between Illness and Success” is a two minutes short movie transformed by an Internet data flux and re-edited server-side when web statistics (Google Analytics) are available: the public can watch a new movie every day.
The core idea of “The Possible Ties...” is the relationship between manic depressive illness forms and success at large, a theme it symbolically tracks through the filming of an ill man lying in a bed and the presence of his partner (actress Stefania Orsola Garello).
The body of the man (actor Ignazio Oliva) progressively fills with stains: quantity and position depend on the number of users (and country of origin) visiting the website.
The more users, the more stains, thus causing the “illness” to spread all over the body.
The public grants success while appropriating the body of the artist.
The female role is played by Actress Stefania Orsola Garello, who starred in “King Arthur” by Antoine Fuqua with Keira Knightley and Clive Owen and “Heaven” by Tom Tykwer with Cate Blanchett and Giovanni Ribisi. She even recorded her
own voice for the Italian version of the movie.
Actor Ignazio Oliva, in the male role, previously played in Bernardo Bertolucci's “Stealing Beauty“ with Liv Tyler and Jeremy Irons, “The Triumph of Love” by Clare Peploe with Mira Sorvino and Ben Kingsley, and “Hermano” by Giovanni Robbiano with Rade Serbedzija and Emir Kusturica.
Music for the film is by Gabriel Yared, world well-known composer who scored among others “The English Patient“, “The Talented Mr. Ripley” and “Cold Mountain” by Anthony Minghella.
Words of the narrator in the film are taken from the last page of “American Purgatorio”, a novel by Brooklyn based American writer John Haskell. John Haskell also plays the part of the Narrator in the English version.

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