TERRA INCOGNITA
Italy, France | 2024 | 93 min | col.
Two utopian experiences take place in parallel: in the Italian Alps, a family of German origins lives without power or contacts with society; across the alpine frontier, in France, a huge plant is being built to produce power by way of cold fusion. Enrico Masi has accomplished his most ambitious project, the outcome of years of researching the Anthropocene: departing from the figure of naturalist Alexander Von Humboldt – embodied by the voice of a ‘cosmic narrator’ – the film opens to a dialogue between opposite development models that reflects on the human condition and the relationship with material resources. Atomic energy and its symbolic load clash with an opposite tension, the rejection of industrialization and degrowth, imagining a possible future that includes the quest for a new, magmatic and elusive, extremely refined cinematic form that is at once lyrical and concrete (a.s.)
Local Time
- Timezone: America/New_York
- Date: 06 Nov 2024
- Time: 10:30
Location
- Cinema La Compagnia - Via Camillo Cavour, 50/R, 50121 Florence
Organizer
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Enrico Masi
With a degree in Modern Literature and Cinema and a doctorate in Pedagogy, Enrico Masi (Valsamoggia, 1983) has developed a focus on the cultural issues of post-modernity and the social impact of 20th century and third millennium phenomena. His first feature film, The Golden Temple (2012), was presented at the Venice Days of the 69th Venice Film Festival and at the Festival dei Popoli. It was then followed by Lepanto - Ultimo Cangaceiro (2016) and Shelter - Farewell to Eden (2019).
