Felicitazioni Photo Romance

A Sci-Fi Instagram Photo Book set in a Retrofuturistic Milan.

Felicitazioni is a grotesque 5 act photo (+video) romance released day by day in instagram stories, now fully online in the Highlights of the account @felicitazioni_romance.

This comedy, drama and horror story takes place in a 70’s designer villa in rural Italy. Pregnant Barb (Sophia Loren on the inside and Palm Springs housewife on the outside) and her handsome, caring and successful partner Vincenzo  have just moved in.

There’s passion, ghosts, unnecessary body parts, romantic trips, Italian food and fights.
Barb talks directly with her social media followers about her surreal pregnancy through insta stories.

“What at first looks like a candid romcom situation, soon turns into a dystopic and absurd storyline where the wife grows a third leg and the husband discovers to be pregnant too. Inspired conceptually and aesthetically by both mid-century Sci-Fi B Movies and the eye-pleasing settings of classic American family-themed TV series like ‘Bewitched’ or ‘The Nanny’, ‘Felicitazioni’ succeeds in subverting the typical male gaze of the softcore photo books by portraying a certain genre fluidity in its witty plot. “
words by Lorenzo Ottone