What happens when the most advanced technology listens to the plant world? When science does not just try to measure, but to understand? This is the question at the heart of Il Codice del Bosco, a fascinating docu-film by Alessandro Bernard and Paolo Ceretto, scheduled for Monday 16 June at 7 pm at the Centro Servizi Culturali in Macomer, with the patronage of the Municipality. Admission is free until seats are taken.
The film takes us into the heart of a forest devastated by Hurricane Vaia, where two scientists – Alessandro Chiolerio, a physicist and innovator, and Monica Gagliano, an ecologist with an approach inspired by ancestral knowledge – listen to a wounded nature.
Their challenge? To establish contact with the “genius loci” of the forest, trying to decipher the silent communication of the trees.
Through sophisticated devices, cutting-edge experiments, and a constant dialogue with the limits of human knowledge, The Code of the Woods explores the subtlest frontiers of plant perception. Plants, it turns out, communicate. And they do so with an intelligence that challenges traditional paradigms of science.
The work of Chiolerio – a multifaceted scientist with experience at NASA, the Max Planck Institute and the University of Bristol – intertwines with the intuitions of Gagliano, a pioneer of “plant neurobiology”. An encounter that mixes physics and spirituality, electronics and ancestral memory, giving shape to a story that is both scientific and poetic.
Making the screening in Macomer even more special is the fundamental role played by two young local professionals: Silvio and Paolo Pilia. Both are members of the Gruppo Utenti Linux del Marghine (GULMh) and are co-founders of OpenAzienda, a Sardinian company that combines open-source and environmental technology.
The protagonists of the project will also be present at the evening, including Alessandro Chiolerio himself, who will illustrate the scientific path underlying the documentary.
His international career – which has brought him among the top 2% of scientists in the world according to the Harvard Global Database – makes him one of the most interesting figures in Italy today in the field of biomimetic innovation.
