MissingNo
Competition                  

MissingNo

Simona De Carlo

Country

Italy

Year

2026

Length

8'

Category

Experimental

Premiere

Italian

Screenplay

Simona De Carlo

Cinematography

Antonio De Carlo

Editing

Simona De Carlo

Music

Simona De Carlo

Sound

Simona De Carlo

Production

Simona De Carlo

Academic and formative context in witch the short film was developped

Accademia delle Belle Arti di Bologna

Synopsis

Through a fragmented domestic archive, made of worn videotapes, interference, and digital glitches, MissingNo explores the relationship between memory, identity, and image. A family’s most intimate moments emerge and disappear in an unstable visual flow, where time alters what seemed destined to last forever. Glitches not only represent the fragility of technological support, but become the concrete manifestation of memory: incomplete, changeable, incapable of conveying reality in its entirety.

Suspended between experimental cinema, found footage, and glitch art, the project transforms the family archive into an emotional space where the private intertwines with the collective experience of memory.

Biography

Simona De Carlo is an experimental artist who works primarily with video. Her research explores the digital world and its imperfections, guided by a strong interest in glitch art and evolving visual forms. At the heart of her work is the idea of transformation: De Carlo takes videos, dismantles them, edits them, and reassembles them. Through this process of deconstruction, the files become corrupted and the original images lose their original function, giving rise to something entirely new.

Statement

The short film explores a universal question: how much of us survives in the memories we retain? And what remains when even the images begin to fade?

— Simona De Carlo

Archival materials

The archive material used belongs to the director’s family video archive.