#laculturanonsiferma. "Skyscraper Cinema" by Marco Bertozzi
The humanity and the landscape of the Rimini Skyscraper are examined by one of its residents (the author of the documentary, Marco Bertozzi) in an open dialogue with the skyscraper itself (whose voice is performed by writer Ermanno Cavazzoni).
Bertozzi moved into one of the flats of the Rimini’s skyscraper in 2005 and began to film some of the spaces and people surrounding him, wondering what it is today a 100 metres tall building inaugurated in 1959 as "an icon of a small town that was being transformed into a beachfront metropolis", as he says in the director's notes.
«Two hundred homes, one on top of the other, all so close... A secret grid of aggregations, resettlements, intermingling, which symbolizes the ancient human desire of recreating a space of life. A melting pot of languages, reminiscent of the Babel experience, for its promise of coexistence and respect, of understanding and tolerance. Living there, I realized how much richness and how many problems it kept».
The collected material, shot in many different formats, narrates not only the story of a ‘symbolic’ building but also the story of a singular town as Rimini, and let us reflect on our mutable ways of living.
Skyscraper Cinema, awarded with prizes and special mentions, is presented by the Italian Cultural Institute in Paris within the series #IICCinémaChezVous, streamed on the Institute’s Vimeo channel from Friday May, 15th to Sunday May, 17th at 06:00pm.