Il palazzo
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The protagonist of this film is a building. Erected on the outskirts of Rome like a monolith in the open countryside, it is a 1970s municipal complex: Corviale. This structure, stretching over a kilometer, has become the embodiment of the failure of a utopian urban planning project. Conceived as a self-sufficient city, for decades it was abandoned to the solutions adopted by its eight thousand residents. The film lingers on this fascinating architectural monstrosity, intertwining images with the perspectives of its residents. As if the building had its own voice, the testimonies and stories of its residents, filmed off-screen, converge into a polyphonic narrative of personal destinies intimately tied to the history of Corviale. Gradually, a space opens up in which the viewer is able to reflect on the contradictions that underlie our Western metropolises.
«I tried to get closer to this unique microcosm at the margins of society by describing the contradictions between a large architectural object and the rural area that surrounds it, and in so doing, explore the relationship between city and country, nature and architecture, and the appropriation and the utilisation of such a non-place».
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