in the italian province
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Dates2020 - Ongoing
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Author
- Topics Documentary
- Location Italy, Italy
In Italy you have big spaces, filled with parking lots and malls. They look eery and spooky in the Italian landscape, like they were not meant to be there. In Italy there's no such a thing like an Italian dream. Is a country where you feel like your moving but you're actually stuck in space and time
Driving along the provincial roads of Italy, I've pointed my lens to the hidden
events in the part of the country that lies away from the spotlight. I have found
visions of spaces, lights, small and local stories, «la Provincia».
Traveling from North to South, in the «Provincia» I have found an ethereal, far,
liquid, silent, still and empty territory, where the filter is always fairy-tale or
dreamy. I have found empty squares, like the ones told by De Chirico and
painted by Pavese.
These empty, sometimes decadent spaces function as entrances to big malls
parking lots, where one can be kept as a prisoner, hostage of homogenisation,
places where global devours local, blacking diversity out, highlighting a
constant desire for the city lights. Everything is empty, everything stands still
and time dilates.