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CinemAmbiente in cooperation with Circoscrizione VI - Torino, organizes the film exhibition 'Ecokids 2011', screenings for the primary schools of the city. All the events will be introducedby an environmental expert.
The Po and its tributaries as described in stories told by the people who live along its banks; microhistories unfold in settings where time seems to have stood still; fishermen’s tales, legends and poetry recited in Lombard dialect; testimony to a forgotten way of living on the river and in its surroundings, more in tune with nature, its rhythms, in a sort of spontaneous symbiosis. The film was commissioned by the Archives of Ethnography and Social History.
Rossella Schillaci (b. Turin, Italy) attended "I Cammelli" Video School and earned a masters degree in Visual Anthropology at Manchester in 2000. She made her directorial debut with the awardwinning Ascuntami (2000) followed by Pratica e Maestria (2005). She has co-directed productions for RAI and Endemol. Her TV documentary Living Beyond Borders (2004) was filmed in India. She is instructor and researcher at the University of Milan and the Lombardy Region Archives of Ethnography and Social History.
“Practising a sort of detached observation, we explored the local backwashes where people have very different ways of living with the river. We wanted to portray places and events as closely as possible through their perspective either as a series of pictures or as a leg on a study trip. The single strand in the enquiry consisted of three questions: what does the river mean to the people we encountered, what was their past relationship with the river, and what is that relationship like now, after the changes brought about by industrialization and pollution.”
Edizione 2008
Concorso Documentari Italiani/Italian Documentary Competition
DOCUMENTARY
Italy , 2008, 67'
REGIA/DIRECTOR
Rossella Schillaci, Giancorrado Barozzi
TAGS:
Geographic Areas And People, Rivers, Sustainable development