After having been previewed from November 6th – until December 8th – in the Teatro del Castello di Rivoli, for its second stage the film A return was screened from 7 December 2013 to 26 January 2014 at the MAN_Museo d’Arte Provincia di Nuoro, to continue until the end of 2014 with a calendar full of events in the AMACI associated museums of the entire peninsula, from Naples to Gallarate, from Milan to Pesaro, from Rome to Matera, from Florence to Caraglio, from Venice to Pistoia to Bologna. Born from the collaboration between the Contemporary Architecture and Art Service of PaBAAC and AMACI, the Museum Calls Artist project aims to actively support the contemporary system in our country, commissioning Italian artists year after year to produce a new work that will be able to circulate in associated museums, forming the basis for the creation and use of a common heritage. “The Museum Call Artist project – declares Beatrice Merz, President of AMACI – was born from the common intention of AMACI and PaBAAC to concretely support Italian contemporary art museums, in the awareness, on the one hand, of their fundamental role for the consolidation of Italian contemporary art and, on the other, of the importance of safeguarding a of the constitutive principles of a museum, the increase and valorisation of the heritage.” For the first edition of Museo Gioca Artista, curated by Ludovico Pratesi and Angela Tecce, the Directors of the AMACI museums have chosen to commission the creation of a new work to the twins Gianluca and Massimiliano De Serio, who for several years have combined their path of visual artists with cinematographic careers, in a constant search for balance between photography, in which they are masters, and artistic purposes. From this call the film took shape A return , born in a moment of creative crisis among artists, and from their need to understand the reasons and overcome it. Making use of the collaboration of Giuseppe Regaldo – hypnotist expert in rapid hypnosis techniques – the pair of artists becomes the subject and object of a simultaneous hypnosis experiment: in this state they dialogue and film each other, intertwining the conversation with childhood memories up to the moment prenatal, in which they were in the maternal womb, in a process of progressive regression without the mediation of the story. In addition to being the first experiment of its kind known to date, in which two twins are induced into a state of simultaneous hypnosis, it is an attempt at dialogue on the crisis they are going through, with the aim of reaching a state of deep introspection. . A return tries to complete the transfer of the crisis from external (creative) to internal (identity), through a cross-gaze aimed at that normally invisible area which is the unconscious. The protagonists are themselves, their being twins, their talking to each other and looking at themselves in a living mirror – reiterates Beatrice Merz – I am the double, the beginning of multiplication where the doubt of the other in himself is born .