Genius Loci

Production

Draka Production

Category

docu-film

Year:

2022

Directed by

Barbara Berni

Screenplay

Barbara Berni, Micol Conti

Status

in development

Plot

The movie got the Fund – Selettivi by MIBACT for screenplays (2018) and the Apulia Film Commission Development Fund (2021)

Idrusa, a young photographer from Milan, is in Puglia to make a reportage on abandoned and forgotten places in her homeland. She is taking pictures in an ancient village when his digital Nikon falls and breaks. A Polaroid SX-70 is loaned to her, but it reveals a strange feature. Impress the past. In particular, objects, witnesses to the hard work of southern women. Laborers, peasants, tobacconists, workers. The photographer begins an investigation and discovers that the working conditions of women in the south have not changed that much since the 1950s.

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