The encounter of two teenagers at the threshold of the twenty-first Century will lead us to revisit the last twenty years’ period as reflected by the passions and hopes, illusions, anxieties and doubts of two young lovers, who find themselves growing up in an Italy put at crossroads. On one side history’s great narration overflowed by the perils and contradictions of globalized civilization, the great themes of our times as seen from Italy: climate change, the Age of political and military imperialism at first, digital and information-technological at second; the unravelling of a national political class – Italy as a gym for past and present revolutions. On the other side, every day’s life of two teenagers, rich and complex, who cannot but filter the scene unravelled on History’s canvas through their local and family-bias, the impulses and wounds received during the development of their personalities, which will unite to separate them in the moment going to decide their story. Chiara and Gabriele, you and me, all of us and those we love, will separate themselves as to begin their own journey, deviated, in order to reunite at the point where everything seems vanishing into the darkness of void, the critical moment which opens to the possibilities of infinity.
Since it being one of my thesis’ major themes, and me a Roman resident, I’ve recently experienced the real nature of ruins. Their broken arches and pillars driving our imagination to infinity. Being indefinite endings containing an infinity of imaginative possibilities, our imagination makes a sublime experience.
I often have the feeling to walk amidst imperial Rome. Behind me hearing Cicero, who addresses himself to Dolabella from the rostrae: Sed per deos immortalis! You won’t betray the republican party. And next on the left hand side crazy baby-face Nero, who demolished the Palatin’s surroundings for his palatial complex, that had to become greater than the pyramids of Egypt.
But this is something better to convey purely visually.
LikeLike