GOOD MORNING TARANTO
Realizador Paolo Pisanelli
Países Italy
Duração 85 min
Sinopse
Good morning Taranto is a tensional and passionate journey through an area surrounded by clouds of smog. An intoxicated city at an unsustainable level. Air, land and water all poisoned by the blasting furnaces of Ilva where coal is burned to produce steel. Ilva is the largest steel plant in Europe, and was built right next to Taranto’s suburbs nearly fifty years ago. Its inhabitants' angers and dreams are accompanied by a nomadic intermittent radio, a digital cine-eye that marks the rhythm of the film and follows the events occurring on the edge of reality, with alienating noises, unbreathable fumes and sudden revelations of the beauty surrounding this area. The film is a surreal journey punctuated by bursts of hidden beauty and hypnotic sunsets by the waterfront. What do people who live among red and black dust in this great yet scarred city of Magna Grecia do and think about? A people forgotten for years by politics and depredated by criminals are forced to break the silence and speak out about its diseases and having to choose between having a job or being healthy. Taranto is the mirror of an Italy in existential crisis, that after having focused on the process of industrialisation, has to reform policy and plan for its future.
Good morning Taranto is a tensional and passionate journey through an area surrounded by clouds of smog. An intoxicated city at an unsustainable level. Air, land and water all poisoned by the blasting furnaces of Ilva where coal is burned to produce steel. Ilva is the largest steel plant in Europe, and was built right next to Taranto’s suburbs nearly fifty years ago. Its inhabitants' angers and dreams are accompanied by a nomadic intermittent radio, a digital cine-eye that marks the rhythm of the film and follows the events occurring on the edge of reality, with alienating noises, unbreathable fumes and sudden revelations of the beauty surrounding this area. The film is a surreal journey punctuated by bursts of hidden beauty and hypnotic sunsets by the waterfront. What do people who live among red and black dust in this great yet scarred city of Magna Grecia do and think about? A people forgotten for years by politics and depredated by criminals are forced to break the silence and speak out about its diseases and having to choose between having a job or being healthy. Taranto is the mirror of an Italy in existential crisis, that after having focused on the process of industrialisation, has to reform policy and plan for its future.