Each year about four million cubic metres of rock are taken away from the Apuan Alps. Day by day, the mountains crumble though the Earth took twenty million years to create them. The Apuan Alps are home to the quarries that mine the white marble that Michelangelo so loved. Here, destruction is called “production”, quarries are called “marble farms”, and lorries full of dust and stones travel the roads to and from the quarries. Yet despite the enormous environmental sacrifices, the economic and employment woes of one of Italy’s sunniest, most beautiful, yet depressed areas, have still not been solved.
Director
ALBERTO GROSSI
Alberto Grossi is an expert on the events, customs and environment of the Apuan Alps. The documentaries he produces afford an interpretation of local stories and traditions, and describe the places and people of a small, yet unique world in a manner that forces the audience to reflect upon major universal issues. In 1998 he won the Carrara Festival in the special session dedicated to work in the Apuan caves with his documentary Extollunt Marmora Lunam. His works include Nuvolare (2000) and Aqua frigida (2002).
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