A documentary put together from an anonymous collection of 16mm home movies showing safaris in Central Africa filmed between 1957 and 1963. The footage, which was later edited and had a sound track added, shows a group of friends, lovers of small game hunting, meticulously filmed by a cameraman: a safari in French Equatorial Africa (Chad), footage of “kills” in Cameroon, Angola, Mozambique and other African countries, that have the impact of a colonial-touristic expedition.

Otranto, Torre del Serpente, the easternmost part of Italy, the point where, lest we forget, East and West once touched. Today, the memory of that link seems to re-emerge as a consequence of all the illegal immigrants that disembark on its beaches, as their clothes, shoes and personal effects found along the coast remind us. To those among them that did not make it, we dedicate the canto of the polyphonic Albanian chorus of Lapardha that, on August 5, 2002, at dawn, sang one of its passage for the victims of the 1997 “accident”, in which dozens of Albanians died aboard a boat sunk by the Italian navy.