A ruota libera
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Turin 2002. Tonight I'm riding my bike.
A bicycle alone gets lost, swallowed up in the city traffic.
A group of bicycles, on the other hand, breaks the traffic. They modify it, slow it down, restructure it, defining new times and ways. The rhythm gets slower. Dream comes closer to reality. As by magic, it takes a shorter time to go from one place to another. Traffic jams turn into a slower but more regular flow. The society, fragmented into small and noisy tin boxes, is rearranged into a colourful mosaic of people pedalling together. Tensions are released and you rediscover the pleasure of talking to each other. Laughter and jokes are in people's mouth again.
A sudden flash, the dream dissolves. Traffic rebels, spitting out bile and horns. Reality is back. The monster is tamed only in part. It wriggles fiercely as if it was trapped. Only a group can calm it down. The number of bicycles is crucial. A multitude which gets together.
We must dare to free the bicycle wheels from the traffic workings, we must be a “conscious mass”.
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About the Movie A ruota libera
«Course/competition to make a video on the subject of sustainable development: daily and imaginary life, framed from the environmental, economic and social viewpoint.
Pilot project promoted by: Sustainable Development and Waste Services, Turin Territorial Laboratory for Environmental Education Audiovisual Media Centre of Turin Province, in collaboration with Coop Zenit Arti Audiovisive, Ar.N.I.A (Environmental Image National Record Office) and Cinemambiente.
The project, whose aim is to provide instruments of social and environmental communication, has produced 5 reportage-videos on environmental and social issues. The basic idea is to realize a cooperative activity, where the competence of each party involved can be integrated in order to make finished products ready for possible distribution.
The project, started this year for the first time, has been carried out with five selected groups who applied for it. Technical teaching has included analysis of video language (linguistic models and video techniques) and some meetings on issues concerning sustainable development (environmental communication, local Agenda 21 procedures, local good practice of sustainable development, etc.).
The outcome consists of five 10 minute reportage-videos on environmental issues. Turin International Environmental Festival Cinemambiente is one of the partners of the project».
[Cinemambiente 2002]
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