Seams

2014, 15 minutes

Renaissance Italy. Street child Flavia starts working for a talented court tailor and discovers his unfinished masterpiece: a sculpture made of human skin.

The Italian Renaissance. The era of new ideals, inventions scientific breakthroughs, geographical discoveries, a class system society. It is a world of exquisite beauty and grandeur for the wealthy and fortunate... and a harsh survival ground for the poor. SEAMS is the story of Flavia, a young girl aspiring to more than mere survival on the streets: she wants to be a tailor. Flavia's blunt recklessness earns her a foothold in the amazing world of the eccentric, incredibly charming and enigmatic master tailor Valtieri. Blinded by the opportunity and eager to live up to her tasks and his expectations, Flavia struggles to realise that he is working in secret on his morbid masterpiece: A statue made of human skin ...