Tales of grain signed by Vittorio De Seta, the testimonies and memories of the farmers on the bread, the hunger, the land of Stefano Savona, but also many movies that tell the ancient devotion linked to loaves of St. Joseph.
These are some of the contributions of "harvests Doc", the first exhibition of documentaries and movies of Salemi to be held tomorrow and Sunday at the Castle´s Norman-Swabian town.
The show, a preview of the initiatives on the occasion of the Feast of St. Joseph, is organized by the Municipality in collaboration with the Regional Centre for the inventory and cataloging of the Sicilian Regional Film Library. The program kicks off tomorrow at 18, after the greetings and the presentation of the bill by the mayor of Salemi, Domenico Venuti, councilor for culture, tourism and entertainment, Giuseppe Maiorana, and the leader of the Sicilian Regional Film Library, Laura Patria.
The first day will be projected "Stories of wheat" with contributions by Vittorio De Seta (Parabola d´Oro 1955), Mario Sarica and Maurizio Spadaro (The cycle of wheat in 2013) and Franco Blandi, Mariolina Santoro, Rosario Blacks (The Miller , 2009). In the video of De Seta is told of the wheat harvest in Sicily at a time when it reaped and threshed with the mule, with the wind and sweat, while "The cycle of wheat" emphasizes the cereal cultivation Nebrodi with the plow and traditional techniques; "The Miller", finally, is a short film on the history of Russian Umberto, miller passion for ancient stone mill Longi (Me) that leaves a brilliant career as a manager to return to this ancient and fascinating job.
Sunday at 18 will be screened instead the "Stories of the altars" with movies "Mirabella and his altars" of 1982 and "The altars of St. Joseph in Salemi and Life" of the seventies. Space to the documentary filmmaker and photographer Stefano Savona Palermo "Spezzacatene.
The Bread of St. Joseph "in 2010, which tells the stories, memories and testimonies of six Sicilian peasants, who were born in the first three decades of the last century, the bread, the hungry and the earth. The movie is a testament of a vanished civilization, stories of exploitation and effort, far from the stereotypes bucolic, as the rhetoric of the redemptive work and saving.
The full program of the Feast of St. Joseph will be presented next Tuesday, March 10, at 11:30 am at Villa Igiea, attended, among others, by the regional tourism, Cleo Li Calzi.
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