The Peasant and The Priest
Director Esther Podemski
Countries United States, Italy
Duration 47 min
Synopsis
THE PEASANT AND THE PRIEST tells the story of two it men in their eighties whose ways of life have survived from medieval IT to the present. Sergio, a Tuscan sharecropper, uses ancient farming methods that have become overshadowed by corporate agriculture. Father Oreste fights the tide of sexual slavery, which grows each day as more and more women from Africa and Europe are forced into prostitution in IT. Each man tries to make his contribution to a globalized world that moves relentlessly and carelessly forward. The point of departure for exploring these parallel lives is a 14th-century fresco, “The Allegory of Good and Bad Government,” by Ambriogio Lorenzetti. Commissioned by the government of Siena for the Republic’s town hall, the mural tells a timeless, cautionary tale of the struggles necessary to establish and maintain social justice and reveals history as a living continuum in which care of the land and care for each other are interwoven.
THE PEASANT AND THE PRIEST tells the story of two it men in their eighties whose ways of life have survived from medieval IT to the present. Sergio, a Tuscan sharecropper, uses ancient farming methods that have become overshadowed by corporate agriculture. Father Oreste fights the tide of sexual slavery, which grows each day as more and more women from Africa and Europe are forced into prostitution in IT. Each man tries to make his contribution to a globalized world that moves relentlessly and carelessly forward. The point of departure for exploring these parallel lives is a 14th-century fresco, “The Allegory of Good and Bad Government,” by Ambriogio Lorenzetti. Commissioned by the government of Siena for the Republic’s town hall, the mural tells a timeless, cautionary tale of the struggles necessary to establish and maintain social justice and reveals history as a living continuum in which care of the land and care for each other are interwoven.