This documentary starts with original accounts by farmers and mountain dwellers from the valley of Cuneo in Italy’s Piedmont region, a people driven en-masse from their mountain homes by hunger. These accounts are interwoven with those of their modern-day descendents, men and women who live in a totally changed world. These voices from past and present blend with scenes of Cuneo’s landscape, which is covered in remains and scars that mark the distance and the similarities between its farming past and its post-industrial present. The film captures the remnants of mountain villages and a countryside peppered with abandoned factories, the ruins of illegal buildings, and industrial warehouses
Directors
ANDREA FENOGLIO
Andrea Fenoglio graduated from the Saluzzo Institute of Art in 1996; he also completed an Arts degree, with a major in Filmmaking, in 2003. Since then he has worked in a range of sectors. In 2004 he started to make documentaries that focused on the relationship between humans and their environment, observing the complex web of environmental and social issues and the subsequent changes to the landscape. His films include "La vita è un lavoro" (2010); "Il viso" (2009) and "Taglio di ritorno" (2009).
DIEGO MOMETTI
Diego Mometti was born in 1977; he graduated in Modern Arts and founded the social art group Belgradostraat. After working with the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Turin, he began to look at art and new technology. In 2005, he ran a course in Aesthetics at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Universidad de Chile, Santiago. His films include "La vita è un lavoro" (2010); "Il motore delle città" (2008) and "Voci e luoghi dal mondo dei vinti" (2007).
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