IMPRESSIO IN URBE - SIRACUSA

Impressio in-urbe explores the textures of urban space: the materiality of architecture, perspectives of a city that you will never see. A breakdown of the city’s covering from which the torn, apparently immobile matter emerges. It is the trace that everything and every gesture leaves behind: an identikit (or vivisection) of the space and time of the city.

“The film is part of a series produced by Nomadica with the collaboration of various fine arts academies in Italy. Each film (Bologna, Siracusa and, still unreleased, Brescia) reconstructs an ‘impression of the city,’ it is a kaleidoscopic journey through time and urban space, a deconstruction of the surface of things, through filming and a relief of its fragments. Then these are melted together to make up urban aesthetics, with details that create the whole, the atoms that make things: the matter and patterns of city architecture, the lines of squares and buildings, the flayed skin of city. The human presence is in the background, while the voices and noises of the city intertwine and echo incomprehensibly. The grandeur of the architecture remains distant and detached in its apparent fixity, but the city wears out over the centuries, at times other than those of human beings. Thus we are crossed by the time and matter of each place, with a game that in some ways is a historical and scientific experiment.”

DIRECTORS: Giuseppe Spina, Giulia Mazzone (with the students of the Fine arts academy Rosario Gagliardi in Siracusa: Lia Abbruscato, Veronica Bedova, Ester Greco, Miriam Micieli, Alessandra Natale, Antonio Papa, Greta Pirruccio, Seby Roccaro, Antonino Santacroce, Eric Silverio, Michela Vinci). EXECUTIVE PRODUCTION: Niccolò Benetton. PRODUCTION: Nomadica.eu, MADE Program - Accademia di Belle Arti Rosario Gagliardi (Siracusa).