Marco Perego-Saldaña & Zoe Saldaña On Their Hope ‘The Absence Of Eden’ Will “Open Conversation” About The U.S. Border Crisis
deadline.comIf Italian artist Marco Perego-Saldaña’s transition to film comes as a surprise, it is only to those outside his own household. “I always wanted to make a film.
I’m a little obsessed. I watch one film Monday to Friday,” he says. “Sunday, actually,” corrects his wife Zoe Saldaña, with a laugh.
With the intensely dark drama The Absence of Eden starring Saldaña and Garrett Hedlund as individuals on each side of the U.S.
border crisis, Perego-Saldana has put decades of artistry and independent study to use, creating a film that juxtaposes beauty with brutality. “The idea was to approach it from a sculpture perspective,” he says. “There are so many mysteries inside the picture to discover, if people pay attention.” DEADLINE: Why was this a subject matter that you wanted to explore with your first feature film? MARCO PEREGO-SALDAÑA: I’m an artist.
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