Watch Me Fly

By Emma Rocchi, Letizia Montanari, Elisa Erario, Martina Sterkaj, Anastasia Dimartino, Raoul Minola, Matilde Fumagalli, Stella Mazzei, Angelica Mazzei

"Watch Me Fly" is a story of rebirth. A girl drifts through a nocturnal hell of her own, filled with neon light, distorted music, and chemical euphoria. She loses her way between what drags her down and what pulls her upward. At first she lies on the asphalt, fragile and dazed, as if pinned beneath a collapsed world. But slowly she begins to draw wings onto herself. Not real wings, but imagined ones made of dust, desire, and mistakes. Those wings stand for a freedom and an escape not yet fully within reach. The story spirals on through color and artificial light, fairground rides, glitter, and euphoria. At its most radiant and most hollow moment, lightness becomes an illusion. Then comes the fall. The body gives way, the skin cracks, and through those fissures something finally begins to grow. Two protrusions, like the promise of two truths. Now the wings are real. She rises again, walks, stumbles, and attempts flight. Standing before a cliff, she looks down. Return to the loop that keeps repeating, or truly take flight? In the silence of the city, suspended in the air like a ghost, she finally finds her answer. "Watch Me Fly" is a visual fable about addiction, awakening, and liberation. It is the story of a cycle that repeats itself until she learns whether to stay or to be born again.