Video work "Stone/Irruption of Reality" is born from the encounter with women who are working ten and more hours per day as stone-breakers and rock-bearers over Buthan mountains' streets (North-East of India). Working women as ancient as the mountains from which they seem to break off; women whose faces convey a profound calmness, although their hands are slaughtered and their faces marked by strain. Video images are since the beginning strictly related with excited voices from New York's Stock Exchange, suggesting a deep connection between economic power and exploitation, between wealth and poverty in the world. This relation is underlined also by Master Alessandro Cipriani's sound concept, that processes stockbrokers' nervous voices into stones' noise, till it gets into a hammer's hard rhythm which beats time of these women's lives, hour after hour and day by day. Reality comes out in all its rawness and its grief.

This is the first episode of a project specially designed for television. Stereo consists of 30 structures of 30 seconds filmed and recorded in super 8mm, video 8 to DVD. The 30 Drones are titled, numbered and designed to function as autonomous bodies and as part of a narrative machine.

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Over the course of the last century, the US has encircled the world with a web of military bases unlike any other in history. Today, they amount to more than 700, in 40 countries. No continent is spared. They are one the most powerful forces at play in the world today, yet one of the less talked-about. They have shaped the lives of millions, yet remain a mystery to most. Why do countries like Germany, Italy, Japan and South Korea still host hundreds of US military bases and thousands of US soldiers? And why is the US aggressively expanding in many new countries? How do the bases affect local populations, and what stance has president Obama taken on this controversial subject? This documentary film answers these and other questions both through the words of prominent experts, intellectuals and ex-insiders – Noam Chomsky, Gore Vidal, Chalmers Johnson and others – and through the shocking but often inspiring stories of those directly affected by US bases in Italy, Japan, the Indian Ocean and elsewhere.