Mario Banushi: Mam, I remember everything

Mario Banushi, after an existential trilogy about life and death, begins an investigation into folk traditions about motherhood.

“When I was young, I remember how important dreams were and how decisive the signs they revealed about one’s life were believed to be.”

Banushi investigates a universe that contains urban myths, legends, personal histories, dreams, and symbolisms that connect the individual with collective experience. He explores traditions and rituals associated with dreams and family and how the hidden meanings they represent are interpreted in different conditions or localities; the fragmentation of dreams, fantasies, illusions, and hallucinations and their projections in real life as well as meanings given to them by the various traditional cultures, religion, or psychoanalysis.

Key images to work with: A birth/ A mother and a son/ Their kiss/ Time passing by/ Present-Past-Future as one/ The soil/ The light/ A crossroads/ The mother cutting a steaming loaf of bread/ A hymn to those who are not here, to those we loved, to those we shall love/ A choir/ A mermaid in the water/ An elderly woman facing an infant/ Gustav Mahler/ A bed/ Someone taking out their heart and offering it to another/ Electricity/ The stars/ The house/ An altar

“A journey that starts at the place where I grew up, through the customs and traditions engraved in my unconscious and in my memory, and an attempt to immerse myself in this unique ‘continent’ called the Balkans.”