Short Documentary, Italy, 2018, Digital, Color, 16’04"

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directed by: Elisa Baccolo, Gaia Siria Meloni, Giacomo Riillo
cast: Giulio Mezza (voice-over), Giordana Faggiano (voice-over)
screenplay: Elisa Baccolo, Gaia Siria Meloni, Giacomo Riillo
photography: Elisa Baccolo, Gaia Siria Meloni, Giacomo Riillo
editing: Elisa Baccolo, Gaia Siria Meloni, Giacomo Riillo
music: Marcello Fraioli/Spectre
sound: Elisa Baccolo, Gaia Siria Meloni, Giacomo Riillo
 producer: Civica Scuola di Cinema “Luchino Visconti”

 

An ideal day at Treviglio (Northern Italy) Cemetery. A voice that we cannot immediately identify leads the audience through a deep thought on death. Funerals, tree-lined promenades, exhumations, visitors and morticians contribute to give life and movement to this place, turning down the popular imagination that conceives the cemetery as a static and quiet place. Two final suggestions: the first scientific in nature, the latter aesthetic and visionary, are meant to give a further consideration on the concepts of “mistery” and “travel”, both metaphors of life and death conceived as an inseparable continuum.

 

The movie is meant to suggest a philosophic and poetic reflection on the controversial process that, in the contemporary society, transforms death into a taboo. 

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