Sconfinati

2007 and 2005

Himmelblau

The documentary Himmelblau is an investigation on a homeless who is known in Bozen/Bolzano for unrelentingly looking at the sky and, according to malicious rumors, seeing UFOs hiding behind the clouds. The interview turns into a portrait of the social problems present in the wealthy Italian region of South Tyrol. Sunlight flooded images of the man, proposing a critical narration of the town’s society, are confronted with nighttime images of some of the socially most problematic places of Bozen/Bolzano.

Itinerario

In the film Itinerario the camera follows the route which a young South-Tyrolean woman travels during her last day alive before dying in the periphery of Bozen/Bolzano in forcible and mysterious circumstances. The itinerary of the victim is taken as the starting point for a broader narration about the region, which is told by investigating on the people and places that are marginal to the central occurrence. A story is being told by talking about something else.

Well, it’s not like in Bozen there is no violence, the fact is that it is not in the streets… Also the Michaeler case was discovered in a kind of hidden situation… Everything is concealed, everything is very soft. […] The violence is there, but it is masked. […] In small cities people live well because they don’t know what sort of social problems there are, and this because there is some sort of huge silencer that mists over everything.