MILGRAM PROJECT
L'alba di un torturatore (The dawn of a torturer)

Can you imagine that a story and its location are the transplanted image of the human soul, of the relationship between truth and its being?

If the collective soul, an imaginary body, and a collective memory exist, surely they can also exist as a natural displaced and collective body. These two examples are the problematic central part of Milgram’s research, and they both overlap from their scientific nature towards an analysis of conscience. Now Milgram’s fundamental experiment on “obedience to authority” primarily appears similar to Jules Verne as a journey to the centre of the human soul, and it is as if in this descent to the underlying larva one arrives at the discovery of a machine - a phantomatic machine - for the production of a communal monster that is dormant in all of us, that transforms lambs into wolves when woken by art. The truth shown by this experiment lies in a profundity that is destined or forced to return. The first passages of our narrative start from this image. It is therefore a kind of scientific fantasy in which the theme of the journey and its discovery become the metaphor of a place that would otherwise be difficult to visit. In short:  a human being descends into the depths of the earth, but instead of finding a grotto full of majestic stalactites, he arrives in an artificial cave, where he discovers an absurd machine which he neither understands its function  nor its significance. It is a representation of Milgram’s experiment, an absurd carillon inexplicably submerged in those abysses. The presence of the human being awakens the machine, showing him things that he knows nothing of….