Panorami italiani
Fallen Houses
Gianluca Abbate / Italy / 2024 / 15′
A personal account of the 1980 Irpinia earthquake, narrated by a father to his son, becomes a universal paradigm for those forced to leave their homes. With their bodies, people carry memories of places once inhabited, now gone.
INTRASTEVERE CINEMA – Room 2, May 30, 7:30 p.m.
Q&A with the author
Gianluca Abbate
is an experimental film artist and director. In 2016 he won a Silver Ribbon and in 2015 best short film at the Torino Film Festival. In 2020 he received the Efebo d’Oro and the Goethe Film Award at the Zebra Poetry Film Festival in Berlin.
His films have been screened at the Ann Arbor festival in the United States, MAXXI in Rome, MMOMA – Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow, Museum of Modern Art in Istanbul, MOCA Hiroshima, Palais de Tokyo, Galleria d’Arte Moderna in Rome and broadcast on ARTE France. He curated for RAI the graphic identity of “Stati Generali” and “la TV Delle Ragazze” by Serena Dandini. He has lectured at the Civica Scuola di Cinema in Milan, Ied in Rome, the Academy of Fine Arts in Frosinone and currently teaches at NABA in Rome.