Fabrizio Federico - Aug 27th review

''Whether Fabrizio Federico is toying with the people in his films or they are toying with him is hard to decipher. Perhaps that's what it is about, voyeurism in a modern world. Black Biscuit is a feature that anyone could make, but very few will. He describes the people in his films as "misfit outsiders" but who is the misfit, who is the outsider? Fabrizio works with mobile phones and finds people through the internet, today's tools for introspection. But are we looking at ourselves or each other? Pregnant is his latest feature. Is this a pregnant pause in society's development as it is stifled by new technology or is it something amazing that is being incubated? In his own words “past manifesto Pink8 swindled the punk DIY ethic of it best being a flamboyant failure instead of a benign success’’.

Carolyn Bayliss