"The Blackout responds clearly to this question: ordinary psychic experience organizes a permanent desynchronization between the event and its intellection. Ferrara’cinema reproduces the phantomatic latencies, echoes, remanences, transferences, confusions, and illusions (allucinations, fantasies and approximations) that disalign us from the real and yet are our own life. Following the ferrarian logic of ecstatic exacerbation, The blackout describes the ordinary mode of affective experience as delirium, an ensemble of silhouettes, contours, and overlappings –what Edmund Husserl calls “phantoms”. Only by seizing this ensemble can we get at the real."

Nicole Brenez