A journey through places, the environment, relationships, faced through the eyes of the child in each of us, but also with the feelings of adults who consciously decide to build a future perspective for the community.
This is the basis of the project «Centenarians' Songs. Blue Zone Sardinia» : a video art production made by volunteers and enthusiasts, with professional directors and technicians that explores the relationship between Earth, Time and Generations in some countries that symbolize the rural reality of Sardinia .
An island affected by a strong depopulation and an aging of the resident population where, however , social relationships and community ties resist which are nourished, daily, by the cultural and identity roots that even the singing groups (as many as 15 in the Marghine) protect and they procrastinate over time.
The life paths, the intense relationship between the generations, typical of the Sardinian social system, the strong link with the environment and the ancestral beauty of the places, are told through images while the singing and the melodies of the singing groups accompany the gaze of the centenarians who tell the secret of life.
An artistic production that bears witness to the richness of local communities and which becomes an effective tool, thanks to its particular artistic language, to make rural places known nationally and internationally, even to attract travelers and new residences.
Sandro Murtas, president of BS 1879: «Precisely in their ability to generate a collective future, the Marghine Singing Groups have shared the desire to use a new, different, modern language, such as that of video art, which "says without speaking" , which transports and includes without forcing, which allows anyone to find what, still today, animates us in the remainder, in the participation, in the desire to be present and participate in the fate of a Territory and a Community».
With this vision , Centenarians' talks about the future of social relations in the community and the role that singing groups play and can play as protagonists of culture, life and livability in our countries. Not to be missed.
The premiere of the film is on March 4, 2023 at the Filigosa Pavilion – Ex Caserma Mura in Macomer.
(Unioneonline/D)
