2024 | United States | Experimental,Short

Astronomy Domine

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  • Director | Jeanne Liotta
  • Writer | n/a
  • Producer | Jeanne M Liotta

STATUS: Post-Production

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“Astronomy Domine” is a short experimental film in several distinct scenes poetically inspired by the cosmological writings of Giordano Bruno, by visualizing his intuition of the cosmos as spatial, dimensional and boundless. The film’s imagery includes observational footage shot on location of Bruno’s monument in the Campo de’ Fiori,  the annual starling murmurations over Rome, descriptive data mapping of the site using Google Earth, and culminates in a celestial timelapse sequence derived from a skytracker phone app.  Bruno’s writings may contemplate the nature of infinity, but his statue presides over a lively spot on this finite Earth, a site we approach from above via Google Earth.  Documentary filming of monument and square was organized around the annual starling migration which besets Rome every fall.  This natural phenomena-in-flux provides one of the central images for this work: Bruno with starlings swarming the skies each evening at dusk— they  are his “vicissitudes”, the dynamic irrational energies of life, ignorant to the weight of history. The starlings also provide an allegory for his unbounded multiple worlds moving in coexistent orbits. My film Astronomy Domine looks to explore the cosmos as a spatial subject: observable, imagined and experienced. 

Giordano Bruno cosmology flux