Amazon Prime Video’s original Italian series “Prisma”, which launched on August 10 from the Locarno Film Festival, sees the operator revisiting the theme of fluid gender identity after the word “transparent” while catering to a young adult audience and also connecting with the new realist roots in Italia .
The eight-episode show (watch the exclusive clip) – the first TV series to premiere at the prominent Swiss festival dedicated to independent cinema – It centers around identical teenage twins Marco and Andrea, who challenge gender norms in different ways, along with their group of friends who are also going through a similar journey.
“Prisma’ is located in the city of Latina, just south of Rome, and the surrounding area, which was a swamp until the land was drained under Fascist rule. The area is now famous for its modern architecture and fertile agriculture.
“Prisma,” which means publication in Italian, is the brainchild of Ludovico Bessegato, who gained local fame as the presenter of “Skam Italia,” the Italian adaptation of the Scandinavian youth drama that made fame in Italy and premiered on Netflix.
Bessegato, who directed “Prisma,” wrote screenplays with Alice Urciuolo, a writer who hails from the Latina region.
It is produced by PETA-owned company Cross Productions, and is the painting behind “Skam Italia”.
“Five years ago, by pure chance, I had the opportunity to tell stories about people younger than myself, under the supervision of a Norwegian show runner. [and Skam creator] Julie Andem,” Pisgato said in his manager’s statement.
“After five years on this journey, I felt the need to take everything I’ve learned and try to do something that’s totally ours,” he added.
“Something that started from our observation of reality; from our context. Something that showed that we were not just good transformers, but that we were able to offer our own perspective on this world. A new narrative that combines years of study and observation of this world with our personal idea of cinema and our aesthetics.”
“We started with the next fact,” Pisgato noted.
“All those years we have spent meeting people younger than us have clearly shown us how many of the binaries that even my generation were unshakable dogmas, are no longer so for them.”
And we’re not just talking about sexual orientation and identity. We are talking about a generation that seems to live and choose the spaces between them in the broadest possible sense.”
A generation and a world in which the very concept of diversity no longer seems to suffice to describe reality. Given that there is no longer a convergence with regard to the idea of normality, there cannot even be a unified opinion regarding the view of diversity.”
No longer normal, no longer different. Only the infinity of singular existence. We have borrowed the image of an optical prism, which succeeds in breaking down light, which appears only white, into the infinite spectrum of colors that compose it.”
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