filmed december 2017, south of italy
“This year, young Italian artists have taken hold of an antique fire tradition, adding oil by expressing the iconoclastic views taught in all art schools.”
filmed december 2017, south of italy
“This year, young Italian artists have taken hold of an antique fire tradition, adding oil by expressing the iconoclastic views taught in all art schools.”
Each year during the winter solstice, a mountain village near Naples is home to initiatory fire ritual. In this conservative rural setting, nostalgic for more orderly times, the inflammable presence of contemporary art produces some latent violence.