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24 hours. Sutton Murray, Lost & found

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24 hours: A day, a night, a cycle, a routine, a frame, a defining environment for our everyday life.
How does this time frame influence our identity, our way of living, our creative work?
How do our surroundings — the people we encounter, the spaces we work in, the architecture of our homes, and our daily habits — shape the rhythm of our 24 hours?
This film is an intimate and ironic (un)limited journey through the creative process and daily realities of american sculptor Sutton Murray.

“I awake at 5:30, work until 8:00, eat breakfast at home, work until 10:00, walk a few blocks into town, do errands, go to the nearby municipal swimming pool, which I have all to myself, and swim for half an hour, return home at 11:45, read the mail, eat lunch at noon. In the afternoon I do schoolwork, either teach or prepare. When I get home from school at about 5:30, I numb my twanging intellect with several belts of Scotch and water ($5.00/fifth at the State Liquor store, the only liquor store in town. There are loads of bars, though.), cook supper, read and listen to jazz (lots of good music on the radio here), slip off to sleep at ten.” - Kurt Vonnegut, 1965
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Screenplay, film direction, editing: Valentina Di Chiara
Length: 10'
Location: New York
Year: 2024-2025