Un giorno in Barbagia
Espejo de: Todos los sonidos entran adentro
Projected with La canta delle marane + Los Océanos Son Los Verdaderos Continentes
program information
direction, subject, photography:
Vittorio De Seta
editing :
Vittorio De Seta, Fernanda Papa
production:
Le Pleiad
Critical text
Vittorio de Seta is one of the greatest poets in cinema. He was a marginal filmmaker and the author behind the most important documentary saga in Italian cinema in the 1950s. In ten fascinating short films, this Palermo-born director chronicled the rural lifestyle of southern Italy in its constant course of work and days. The landscapes and civilians of Sicily, Sardinia and Calabria were depicted in images that combined a neorealist style with marvellous aesthetics and a serene lyricism. Un giorno in Barbagia (1958) shows the course of a working day in this Sardinian region at the foot of the Orgosolo mountain range where cattle raising is a tradition. Women and children in this region carry through their daily activities: simple routines that can be observed with the clarity and empathy of one who contemplates a world on the verge of disappearance. GABRIEL DOMÉNECH
BIOGRAPHY
Vittorio De Seta (Palermo, 1923) made his directorial debut with Pasqua in Sicilia, co-directed with Vito Pandolfi, and in 1954-55 shot six documentaries in Sicily. Among them Isola di fuoco won the first prize for documentary at the 1955 Cannes Film Festival and Contadini del mare won the Mannheim Film Festival in 1956. He made his feature film debut in 1961 with Banditi a Orgosolo. In the 1970s he switched to television, beginning a collaboration with RAI, which gave rise to the screenplay Diario di un maestro (1973). He died in 2011
