Lacuna felix.
Beyond the 'eyeable'.
Original painting by Gianni Russomando.[1]
To benefit from one’s calling [2] / 52.
The dictionary distinguishes ‘camouflage’ from ‘mimicry’ on the basis of a characteristic : ‘camouflage’ would be easier to unmask, unlike ‘mimicry’ which gets to deceive. Speaking of film acting, the good actor Michael Caine[3] admits : “The close-up of the screen manages to uncover even the most insignificant uncertainty, amplifying it.”
That is, you can’t fool the camera : so close that a minimal crease of the face would reveal contradictory feelings.
On the other side unconscious cannot be tamed and to move – unlike conscience – must have valid reasons. Even cinema introduces – as photography already did – a third other which is, and however is not, the true spectator.
In fact mimicry goes beyond the ‘eyeable’, even if ‘in primis’ – or seemingly ‘in primis’ – this concerns only the visual function: to identify reality the epidermis sensitive primitive property is indispensable, to which - if we admit it – hearing travels abreast detecting percussions on the auditory membrane – the eardrum infact, or ‘tympanum’ – from which those mnemic remnants that establish memory come.
So that it is the skin that is applied – or not – to reality to ap-prehend it, a communication that is immediately transmittable even before words, and that remains indelible beyond any will: and this is what the night dreams and lapsus reveal with certainty.
“Before a film actor can claim a part is his, or hers, he – or she – has to be able to dream the night dreams of the character.”[4]
Marina Bilotta Membretti / Cernusco sul Naviglio – May 14, 2025.
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[1] Gianni Russomando : “born in Vercelli (1956), graduated at the ‘Istituto di Belle Arti di Vercelli’, I can describe me as an ‘amanuense’ (medieval hand-painter), so then far from expositions and competitions.”
[2] www.tutorsalus.net/index.php/en/pensare-da-partner-2/358-psychoanalyst-and-profession-1
[3] ‘Recitare davanti alla macchina da presa’, Preface by Laura Muccino - Dino Audino Editore (2023) p.20. Michael Caine (London, 1933) doesn’t like to talk about his difficult childhood: around the age of eighteen he left school definitively, between 1952 and 1954 he fought in the Korean War among the Royal Fusiliers: when he returned home, he enrolled in an acting school, he began to work at theater and soon to go to the movies. He received two Academy Awards for ‘Best Supporting Actor’ (1986 and 1999) and a Golden Globe in 1983. For his artistic merits Sir Michael Caine was awarded in 1992 the title of Commander, and in 2000 the title of Knight Commander of the ‘Order of the British Empire’ by the Queen Elizabeth II.
[4] ‘Recitare davanti alla macchina da presa’, Preface by Laura Muccino - Dino Audino Editore (2023) p.17.