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La cinta nos traslada al Nápoles de los años 50, donde un niño vive con intranquilidad el regreso de su padre mientras está rodeado de toda su familia (compuesta, exceptuando un cura, exclusivamente por mujeres, de las cuales también está acompañado en la escuela de monjas) celebrando los tradicionales festejos de la Navidad. Es la mirada de este niño la que Rocca rueda, llenando la pantalla de sus juegos y miedos, a través de su mirada y su imaginación, de sus complicidades y amistades, su ingenio e ingenua sabiduría, su inocencia y picardía.
In the distant future, a spaceship inhabited by a group of young descendants of a "subversive" minority who escaped the destruction of the Earth, recovers a capsule in which the hibernating body of a reactionary warmonger has been preserved, who after having caused war and death, it has abandoned the now unlivable Earth. The visual experimentation aimed at the liberation of the gaze is intertwined with psychedelic visions on the one hand and with the orgone theory of Reichian memory on the other.
In all of his work, Bussotti makes frequent reference to the body, to sexuality. This to remind musicians — especially classically trained ones — that they are not body-less angels, that they are not just their musical thoughts, that they are still, in the last analysis, flesh and bones. Thus the erotic is not for shocking, but to stress that making music involves the body in a very direct way.
In this film, as in all my previous ones, there is a direct connection between inner urges and cinematic rendering. I tried to visualize my present aspiration to recover, through the various ways taught by one’s experience, the easiness, directness and ripeness proper to children’s relationships and affective life. This film is maybe a track of this path backwards. – A. L.
