Monowe

Monowe tells the story of a town inhabited by one person. It is an imaginary city, an urban model created for a single individual. The inhabited spaces are buildings that preserve specific functions: the house, the museum, the watchtower, the courthouse, but also abstract places, metaphors for parts of the body in which the solo inhabitant might confront his own interiority.

In its courthouse a trial is underway in which the lone citizen is the defendant, judge, prosecutor, lawyer, witness, and victim. As the trial unfolds, their memories form different stages of the town; its catastrophic past, and the possibility of its future survival. Monowe represents the state of isolation of the contemporary individual, the result of external dynamics and strategies of self-protection. 

Project supported by the Italian Council (11th edition, 2022), the programme aimed at supporting Italian contemporary art in the world promoted by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity within the Italian Ministry of Culture.

This screening is part of Paradoxical Sleep, the third chapter of the film program TUTTAUNANOTTE, curated by Francesco Urbano Ragazzi, and unfolding in four chapters between November 1, 2025 and December 26, 2025, with the films of each chapter streaming for two weeks.

For more information, contact program@e-flux.com.