An offended mountain, channels in which the water flows calmly, waves of a sea that smells of distances and migrations, and even valleys in which human beings meet with roots that sink into territories and times that are very distant from each other. The stories told in the theater or on the screen would not be such if, alongside the main and secondary characters, the events that have marked our recent history, the social changes that are initially creeping and then manifest, there was not also a territory that is itself history. Minor story, at the center of the small daily news, but like no other capable of giving us not so much the sense of space but that of time that operates on the earth, on us, on our dreams. Andrea Segre and Marco Paolini dialogue - as artists and partners - on the particular relationship that is established between their cinema and theatre, and the landscape, with particular attention to the most recent projects in which they are involved: the filming of the Venetian director's new film set in the Valle dei Mocheni.
Marco Paolini is one of the best-known authors and performers of narrative theatre. In the 1990s he made his mark with Appunti foresti, Il milione - Quaderno veneziano di Marco Paolini, and the Bestiari but it was with Il racconto del Vajont that he conquered the general public and critics. Since then Paolini has continued to create and give shape to shows that tell the memories and tragedies of Italy, always suspended between private and public dimensions. Among his most recent works: Il Sergente, Album d’Aprile, La macchina del capo. Ausmerzen is from 2011. Lives Unworthy of Living aired live nationally on the LA7 television station.
Andrea Segre is today one of the most sensitive and rigorous documentarians and directors on the Italian cinema scene. He wrote and directed Marghera Canale Nord (2003) selected at the Venice Film Festival, Che cosa manca (2006), La mal'ombra (2007) awarded at the Turin Film Festival, A sud di Lampedusa (2007) on the expulsions of African migrants in the Ténéré desert. It is dedicated to the same theme Come un uomo sulla Terra (2008), a work awarded in numerous Italian festivals and nominated for the David as best documentary. With Io sono Li, produced by Marco Paolini's Jole film, he made his successful debut in fiction cinema.