Peeping Nicholas

Cast

• Giuseppe Boy
• Fausto Siddi
• Valentina Sulas
• Emilia Agnesa
• Daniele Meloni
• Michela Atzeni

Credits

Directors

Emanuel Cossu

Screenwriters

Emanuel Cossu

Producers

Luca Melis

Screenings

• 72° Festival Internazionale del Cinema di Salerno Salerno Italy November 27
• 2018 Official Selection Assurdo Film Festival Cinisello Balsamo Italy April 27
• 2019 Hidalgo Film Fest Pachuca de Soto Mexico June 26
• 2019 Official Selection Sardinia Film Festival Sassari Italy June 26
• 2019 Official Selection - Vetrina Sardegna III Certamen Internacional de Cortometrajes Ciudad de La Linea Ciudad de la Linea de la Concepcion Spain July 29
• 2019 Official Selection

Directors Statement

The short film takes its cue from Lady Godiva’s myth, which gave rise to the term "Peeping Tom" as voyeur, and plays with the parallelism between the shock for what he have seen and the loss of the protagonist’s memory. In this era, where the “me too” movement rises in popularity, the question of Nicholas “What I’ve seen?” focuses on the position of the “other”, the people which know or see the violence.
Nicholas, despite living down by law - he is a forger - would like to call the police to report the attack but he has poor recollection of what he has seen. He obsesses to remember what he has seen, and this is an obstacle to complete the picture of lady Godiva, which misses just the detail of the voyeur - the Peeping Tom of the myth. With this allegory we want to make a reflection about the help that other people need to cope with a violent situation, help that unfortunately more often than not doesn't come.