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Film

Battiti, il respiro del Vesuvio

Beats, Vesuvius Breathing

Maria returns to Naples after having lived for 15 years in Haiti. Her experience with an animist culture makes her see Vesuvius differently now. Driven by curiosity, she approaches the people who live in a symbiotic relationship with the volcano: Ciccio through land and tradition, Francesca through science, Luciano through art. What they all share is a desire to see the volcano in action. Rather than intimidate, Vesuvius enchants the thousands of people living on its slopes, exorcising by various means the subconscious awareness risk everyone has of a catastrophic explosion. Battiti offers the viewer a sort of rite of initiation journey that begins and ends in the company of a mysterious guide: Carlo, the guard of the grotta della Sibilla at the lago d’Averno, which it said to have once communicated with Vesuvius through underground passages.

Il regista / The Director

Maria Totaro (Naples 1960), after graduating from university in 1985, moved to Haiti where she worked as an architect for 15 years. In 1994 she took up photography and began working on documentary films. Together with David Belle, a New York director, she founded the Haytian Eksperians production company; her works include Parcour d’une Fondation, L’oeuvre de Jean Claude Legagneur, Haitian Eksperyans. Over the years she collaborated with other directors on documentary and fiction films. After returning to Italy, she produced and filmed Battiti, il respiro del Vesuvio.

“The film’s climax is a reconstructed eruption of Vesuvius made by integrating computer simulations with real-life eruptions and panic scenes (eruption of 1944). The idea is not just a formal one. A volcanic explosion releases not only lava and rocks but the imagination as well. It marks an instant when the human condition appears at its most precarious, when life and death are no longer seen as opposites but rather as integrated in a perpetual cycle: the lava covering becomes the silt for future life.”

Edizione 2006
CONCORSO DOCUMENTARI ITALIANI

DOCUMENTARY
Italy , 2005, 52'

REGIA/DIRECTOR
Maria Totaro

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