@rikilorenzi

20 years old

Bologna, Italy

How has your everyday-life changed? What do you do to fulfill your day?

Let's just say that I am living this quarantine pretty well, despite being confined in my tiny apartment in Milan. I have always been used to live between four walls, as I love to work, read, develop ideas and watch and analyze movies all by myself. I am spending my days in the same way I did before, but I do want to discover more what is happening around me, as if this lockdown sharpened my senses. When I look out of my window, for example, and I see a couple fighting on their balcony, I feel like I could make a short movie out of it. Maybe this is just a collateral effect of boredom.

Your work is built on creativity. While we’re all in quarantine, what is your solution to keep on being creative? Where do you find your inspiration in this moment?

The worst way to live this quarantine is by killing your creativity to stay all day long in bed with your pajamas. Once you get dressed and you wash your face, your mind is fresh-new. Unfortunately, to spend your time cleaning your houses 3 times a day is not helping my creativity nor inspiring it. My main source for inspiration have always been audio/video media, in every shape they can be. From video-essays about a single author posted on YouTube to some great classics of cinema. To loose inside a movie, for me, is the best way to get over every day, but more than this I love to binge-watch all the movies by the same director to study their style. Each director I am analyzing is a gold mine.

What is your biggest fear right now?

I fear that in the next few months all the movies that are going to be released will talk about Coronavirus or pandemics in general. To be more serious, I fear all those Italians that will get over the restrictions and will start to not respect them anymore. To ignore them will mean to nullify all the efforts that we made in the past months.

What will you do once all of this is over?

I am living this moment as I am in hibernation, still I am not properly sleeping, because I am feeding myself with all the hints and the inspirations I can find from books and my favorite directors. When this all will be over, I will be ready to come back stronger than ever.