The Moon and The Turtle: Fashion Film for The Cube Magazine by Aksinja Bellone

Official Selection #fffistanbul 2019 Two Yakuza clans seen from the perspective of a relationship in a couple: love, promises, betrayal and finally revenge. The main focus is the impotence of communicability, a very thorny issue in today's relations. The Japanese philosophies: the erotic nature of the ukiyo-e, or the Floating World, the practice of Kintzugi (covering the shards of gold to make them more precious), the promises with the Yakuzian initiation rites, the three faces of the personality of the individual we see here also through the characters: in the past, present and future, they help to retrace Akemi's love story, the protagonist, starting from the end, and rebuilding her psychological catharsis with her. The title means that two things, however similar they may appear, are different beyond all limits, which is often the discovery made in a relationship after the first phase of falling in love.