Giulio Bertelli’s experimental work Agon (2025), now available on MUBI, explores the intersection of fictional narrative, documentary credibility, and technological apparatus through an imagined Olympic Games staged entirely within soundstages. Drawing from the ancient Greek concept of agōn—denoting conflict and struggle—the project uses simulated competitive scenarios to investigate human emotional responses under pressure. Bertelli frames filmmaking as investigative practice, blending organic materiality with technical instruments to stress-test conceptual prototypes. The piece examines the boundary between human frailty and technological mediation through varied compositional scales: macro-level pattern recognition via wide shots contrasted with intimate close-ups of specific processes. Combining poetry, performance documentation, and sonic design, Agon presents what Bertelli terms neorealismo tecnologico—an emotional journey navigating technological systems. The work interrogates preparation, tools, and the phenomenology of constraint, positioning cinema as a vehicle for testing ideas before their integration into collective reality-transformation practices.
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