ORANGES

THE AUTHOR’S STATEMENT

Oranges was born from a moment of restless curiosity and the thrill of new encounters. At twenty-four, I traveled to Normandy with no script in hand, only the desire to capture the fleeting intensity of love. Over forty-eight hours, with a crew I had met the day before, we improvised, observed, and composed a visual poem about two strangers surrendering to life and each other.

I wanted to capture the ephemeral: the whisper of a passerby, the trees disappearing past a moving window, the rapture of absolute present. Every frame collects fragments of experience — color, light, sound — that evoke memory, desire, and the ineffable pulse of connection. “Oranges” is less about understanding and more about feeling: an immersion in emotion, an ode to the beauty of fleeting encounters.

In this work, the line between life and cinema dissolves. Every choice, every image, is an invitation for the audience to witness the joy, risk, and surrender inherent in falling in love. It is a testament to improvisation, courage, and the magic of creating collaboratively with trust and spontaneity.

Lud Mônaco