Short film about the death of art and counter-revolutionary nature of creative feeling. Shot in Super 8.

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Out of the corner of the eye is the recording of a vision, sparked by the accounts of my grandfather, who lived in a small mountain village. The picking of blueberries and raspberries at dawn, in groups of people who kept in touch with songs and calls from one side of the valley to the other, made me think of a vastness of resounding sounds, filling the emptiness of space. I wanted to translate that soundscape into a video. The valley appears dotted with sparkles, glimmers that respond from one end to the other, from the bottom to the peaks. Thanks to the involvement of a group of more than twenty inhabitants of the valley, equipped with mirrors, I transformed a portion of the landscape into an expanded random choreography of presences amidst the woods, with coordination by radio.

Footage of the sea and audio recordings of a conversation in which a sinking refugee ship urgently asks for help from the coast guard, and is met by bureaucratic red tape in response .... until the final silence.

Starting from 50 reels of 8mm and super 8 film recovered in L'Aquila (Italy) and nearby villages after the earthquake of 6th April 2009 (many of them literally torn to rubble thanks to the courage of their owners), I tried to describe the disaster of earthquake to reach a general reflection about memory and its stratifications. In addition to private home movies, I used various audiovisual materials: footages from people with camcorders, cameras or cell phones during the moments and the days after the quake; pictures I shot in L'Aquila and surroundings; images from early cinema films. The differ(a)nce between the audiovisual sources is not only a technical detail, but it assumes an aesthetic and substantial value. It shows the passing of time on the individual and collective memory. The city becomes a metaphor of the fragility of memory.