OTTANA

Dawn is breaking. A group of men on horseback are riding toward the
horizon. They ride in single file toward a destination we can’t see.
Slowly, the light reveals the landscape: in the middle of a green plain
there are jutting smokestacks spewing smoke, this is where the
horsemen are headed. In Ottana, in the middle of the Barbagia desert,
during the early 1970s a sort of industrial pole was created that had
devastating effects on the environment. These horsemen share the
same destiny as the many workers who every day are swallowed up
by the industry.

“Through video, my works explore themes dealing with my
geographical and cultural origins. All my videos take place in Sardinia,
an area in which the process of modernization took place so quickly
that in just a couple of decades it demolished ancient equilibriums that
had been consolidated over the centuries, but without the necessary
instruments to metabolize this transformation. In fact, change
doesn’t always automatically mean improvement.”

regia, fotografia, suono, produttore/director, cinematography, sound, producer Pietro Mele
interpreti/cast Andrea Carotti, Bachisio Gattu, Alberto Mura, Peppino Mura, Danilo Puggioni, Assad Rowascher, Paolo Sedda, Angelo Siotto, Francesco Zedde
distribuzione/distribution Reframe