Uninstalling love

ITA | 2011 | short fiction | 15′

Surreal comedy about the end of a love story in the Internet era, “Uninstalling love” tells us how difficult it can be nowadays, when a relationship ends, to heal from the trauma. In fact, putting all the memories in the back of our mind is not enough: the other’s life must be “uninstalled” from our daily life, from our Smartphone, where we have saved a never-ending list of messages, from our pc and its emails, pictures, videos, from the social networks, which keep showing us photos and friends in common and let us run the risk to turn us into paranoiac cyber stalkers. How is it possible to fight against a system that disowns the right to forget? Trapped in a net of memories, Andrea (Alessandro Rugnone) puts himself into the hands of a weird huckster (Giuseppe Antignati), who promises him that he will remove any traces of his ended love for Anna (Cristina Odasso). But the “formatting” process works backwards: by erasing the latest sad memories, the most remote and sweetest ones re-emerge. Andrea is thus confined by the uninstalling process in a limbo where present and past, loneliness and couple’s life are blurred. And what is left of the just deleted memories only feeds his desire to win back his ex girlfriend’s heart.