May 27
10:00
Zalib
Silent Sound System
Live Performance
Pasolini rework
Luca Maria Baldini, Cosimo Terlizzi
And today, April 24th, 1970, is a day of strike: the order of the street sweepers entered history; we have to
rejoice, as if the angels descended upon the earth to sit on our park benches and on the rock walls of our
suburbs; this is the day of Revelation; every division between the Reign of The Everyday and the Reign of
Conscience has fallen; what remains untouched is humility; for he who had a real vocation knows no
violence, and speaks with grace also about his rights
– Pier Paolo Pasolini
LTHE STREET SWEEPERS STRIKE OF 1970
This unreleased documentary by Pier Paolo Pasolini, which celebrates the first street sweepers strike on
April 24th, 1970, should have been part of a collective work of art, completed in September 1970. It was
believed to have been lost, but it was unearthed in 2005 (with no audio) on the shelves of the Democratic
Workers Movement Archives (Archivio del Movimento Operaio Democratico, AAMOD) by Mimmo Calopresti.
THE PROJECT
Revisiting the strike is an audio-video project by Cosimo Terlizzi and Luca Maria Baldini, produced by the
AAMOD Foundation and Le Cannibale. It is a re-interpretation of the documentary by Pier Paolo Pasolini on the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of his birth. The voice of the director emerges from the faces of the workers, creating a semantic and auditory short circuit. The “scopini”(street sweepers) as he himself called them, become the medium for his words and for the famous speech Moravia gave at his funeral. The sound flow created by samples, synthesizers and analog instruments places the listener in an heightened perceptive disposition, guiding them along an audiovisual journey throughout the live performance.
From the original 84 minutes of filmed material a 40 minute edit was culled, a work conceived as a live soundtrack that was premiered at PAC (Padiglione Arte Contemporanea) in Milan. It was also presented at Danish Film Institute (Copenhagen), Tirana (Fustanelle IIC Italia), Valdarno Cinema film Festival, Sole Luna Doc Film Festival Palermo, Alessandria Film Festival, Spoleto Cinema Pegasus, Next Film Festival Bari, Teatro Traetta Bitonto.
Luca Maria Baldini
Luca Maria Baldini was born in Ravenna in 1985. Musician, sound designer and artist. He has presented his works in national and international galleries and museums. With his musical projects he has played on Italian and European stages. He has created soundtracks and sound design for documentaries, theater plays, short films, installations and performances. He has created several contemporary sound dramatizations for live soundtracks for silent films: L’uomo Meccanico (1921), Cenere (1916), L’etoile de mer (1928), Metropolis (1927). He has presented his work at Asolo art film festival, Trieste Science plus fiction festival, Ibrida Festival, Soundscreen film festival, Teatro Franco Parenti, Zona K, Ravenna Festival, ADFilmfest, Robot Festival, PAC (Padiglione Arte Contemporanea) Milan. He won second prize at the Concourse international de composition de Musiques de film de Montréal.
Cosimo Terlizzi
Cosimo Terlizzi (1973) is a visual artist. He lives and works in Puglia. Since the mid-1990s he has been experimenting in his work with the use of different media, from photography to performance, from installation to video. His works have been exhibited at Centre Pompidou in Paris, MamBo in Bologna, Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw, Fondazione Merz in Turin, Galleria Civica d’Arte Contemporanea in Trento, MACRO in Rome, National Museum of Breslavia in Poland. For cinema, he signs the direction of documentaries presented at Rotterdam Int. Film Festival, Festival d’Automne in Paris, Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels, Biennale Danza in Venice, Torino Film Festival, Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata, London Int. Documentary Festival, International Film Festival in Rome and Homo Novus festival in Riga. In 2018 he made his first fiction feature film, Dei, with Buena Onda (production company of Valeria Golino, Riccardo Scamarcio and Viola Prestieri). He was artistic director of Asolo Art Film Festival from 2019 to 2020.