h 21.00 - Fabbrica del Vapore, Spazio Messina
screening of Archipelago by Giulio Squillacciotti and Camilla Insom and conversation with Giulio Squillacciotti
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Archipelago, a film by Giulio Squillacciotti and Camilla Insom, is a journey through ancient myths, sounds, exorcism rituals, and spirits.
In the South of Iran, on a cluster of islands in the Persian Gulf, men and spirits have been living side by side for centuries. These isles’ cultures and traditions are the result of the encounter between Africa, Arabic countries, and Iran, which then translated into a syncretic set of beliefs. Spiritual entities of different origins, called “Bād”, “wind” in Persian, possess the bodies of those who inhabit the islands by moving through the air and the currents, which in turn require a musical ritual in order to calm down: the ritual of the Zār. Thanks to an exceptional, unprecedented access to a foreign troupe, the film tells the stories and the landscapes of the daily life of islanders and their rituals, presenting an unforeseen perspective on the Islamic Republic of Iran.

h 21.00 - Fabbrica del Vapore, Spazio Messina
screening of Terre Emerse and conversation with Caterina Erica Shanta
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Terre Emerse, a film by Caterina Erica Shanta co-written with Antonio Angelucci, is a tale set a few inches above the sea level. A road trip where Antonio, architect and scholar, is looking for those who live on the outskirts, those who inhabit the riversides between Veneto and Friuli Venezia Giulia.
These areas, which were first claimed by the sea and then reclaimed by the swamps at the start of the 19th century, are heavily exposed to floods and sea storms today. According to what emerged from talking to the citizens, the management, tales, collection, transportation, and protection of water becomes an opportunity to start a political commentary on inhabiting and building cities and rural areas, on the indiscriminate colonization of the land during times of environmental change, and on lacking intergenerational dialogue.
Terre Emerse is a looped film that starts from the sea and returns to the sea. It is a narrative loop that starts from the depopulation caused by migration and ends with the depopulation caused by migration.

h 21.00 - Fabbrica del Vapore, Spazio Messina
screening of Prologo ed ecfrasi su Alberto Camerini and Due and conversation with Riccardo Giacconi
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Prologo ed ecfrasi su Alberto Camerini, a film by Riccardo Giacconi, is the portrait of singer songwriter Alberto Camerini, known in Italy as the electronic Harlequin.
Through conjuring up some of the key moments of the artist’s career, the film shows the peculiarities of his style, where pop, punk, folk, and electronic music are all fused together. This style is on the one hand inspired by Commedia dell'arte, Giambattista Tiepolo, and the Venetian seventeen hundreds, and on the other hand by technological progress and the beginning of the computer era. His career (starting from the radical leftist Milanese movements to the achievement of popularity between the 70s and the 80s, to his rapid decline) is the generational path that, after an era of activism, folded into a period of so-called backflow, focusing on private life and political and social disengagement.

Due, a film by Riccardo Giacconi, conceived simultaneously as a study on landscape and a detective story, was shot in Milano 2, a residential neighborhood in the suburbs of Milan. Built between 1970 and 1979 as a utopian city, it was the first ambitious urban project by Silvio Berlusconi. What today might seem at first sight like an impersonal suburb, was a testing ground for the imposition of a true lifestyle that became popular nationwide during the decades when Berlusconi was president and that radically transformed Italian culture.

h 21.00 - Fabbrica del Vapore, Spazio Messina
screening of Mum, I'm sorry and event with Martina Melilli and Simona Pedicini, mortuary cosmetologist
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MUM, I’M SORRY is a film by Martina Melilli, which arose from dialoguing with migrants who survived the long journey: it’s a close-up look on the details of the stories and personal belongings of lifeless bodies. These belongings are those deemed essential, regarded as “home” to carry on a one way journey. It’s pictures and pieces of paper with numbers written down that talk about their past and inspire hope for new perspectives.
Full of respect and dignity towards life and human beings, Melilli’s work distances itself from a dimension that focuses on numbers, masses, and abstraction in order to transform the tale into something intimate and individual where mere “legal evidence” contributes to the formation of a memorial archive.