An evening of full immersion in the landscape and history, celebrating the artistic and archaeological richness of the island: the Sardinia Archeo Festival also arrives in Villagrande Strisaili this Friday , seeing the S'Arcu 'e is Forros nuragic complex as the setting for a program that includes a guided tour , an artistic installation , a social aperitif and even two archaeological-themed screenings .
Organized by the Itzokor association, promoter of the event, and in collaboration with the site management body Società Archeonova and with Archeovisiva Ets – which has been organizing the Festival of Communication and Archaeological Cinema in Licodia Eubea in Sicily for several years – the activities begin at 6 pm with the thematic tour of the Nuragic complex , in a spatial dialogue that is also enriched by the site-specific installation by Valerio Pisano , entitled " Tappinozio di Mezzaestate ": starting from the unit of measurement that forms the basis of his peculiar stylistic signature, that is, none other than the cap of a Bic pen, the artist develops an encounter between words, matter, forms and visions that connects the past with the present and history with narration.
From 8pm onwards, a moment of conviviality will be dedicated to an aperitif on the slopes of Gennargentu , also offering a tasting of local products, before moving on to the archaeological cinema at 9pm : the screenings, which are produced as part of the collaboration with Archeovisiva, feature two works that, using different languages , focus on memory, heritage, scientific research and cinematic storytelling . We begin with the short " S'Ozzastru " (2023), directed by Carolina Melis with the consultancy of Elisa Guidelli and the production of Nical Films : eight minutes to tell the story of a thousand-year-old wild olive tree, a silent witness to the passing of time and nature's intrinsic capacity to resist , also demonstrated by the tree's survival of the devastating fires that hit the island in 2021, only sprouting again a year later.
This is followed by " Vitrum. Il vetro dei romani – Rome's glass revolution " (2025), a documentary by Marcello Adamo and produced by Filmare Entertainment with GA&A Productions , which takes the audience to the seas off the coast of Corsica and tells the story of the resurfacing of a Roman-era shipwreck with an extraordinary cargo of raw glass and refined artefacts . An international team of archaeologists investigates the wreck, using advanced technologies to reconstruct ancient maritime trade routes and revealing the important role of glass in the Empire of the Caesars. The evening continues even further, with participants offering the opportunity to camp under the stars : a suggestive conclusion to a date filled with archaeology, art, landscape, cinema and socialising.