_+ Fünfhundertsechzig

Fünfhundertsechzig
video, 17’55”
2017

The singer is replaced by a voice from my personal archive of people retelling their memories from the war: partisans and survivors, fused with the melody of Sette fratelli, a resistance song about the Fratelli Cervi.
I chose to have the A-side performed by three teenagers in the Mausoleum for Costanzo Ciano in Livorno, a Fascist memorial devoid of its original meaning, now become a place of leisure in the music video that accompanies the audio tracks. A seventy-five-year-old performer re-enacts on the audio track of the vinyl the gestures recalled from his past.
The jacket of the vinyl disc offers historical and anthropological notes for all those eager to gain a deeper understanding of the sounds.

Special mention by the jury of Combat Award 2017, made up of Andrea Bruciati, Elio Grazioli, Francesca Baboni, Lorenzo Balbi, Lorenzo Bruni, Stefano Taddei, Walter Guadagnini, (LI);
First Prize TU35, 2016, Guardare il mondo di oggi e immaginare quello di domani, based on preferences expressed by Marcella Anglani, Saretto Cincinelli, Vittorio Corsini, Valerio Dehò, Daria Filardo, Ilaria Mariotti, Paolo Parisi, Robert Pettena, Pierluigi Tazzi, Alessandro Vezzosi, (PO)