Umanza

“Umanza:” human and animal. The travel of a group of cowboys, specially of their flock through the sicilian hinterland. From the opened country without any link with man: streets, deserted railways and a little town with its own people, cars and traction engines. At the end of each season, only a purpose: go on.

“Umanza is a project of synopsis. When I came up with the concept and while I was making it, I wanted to avoid using a voice-over. I wanted it to focus only on images, sounds and on their editing. While shooting the film and during the editing phase I chose to use a certain level of crudeness: no reflections or pauses on the landscape or on the main characters in order to reduce everything to something crude, real and natural like the film’s subject. With Umanza I wanted to talk about a group of people’s journey back home, with the micro-world of Sicily’s hinterland and its state of simplicity.”