CIOMPI

With the presence of the director and the selector Federico Rossin

A film in Super 8 and 16mm formats that runs along ancient Florence, worrying not too much about the modern one that occasionally overlaps; it runs along the frescoes, the tapestries, the details, both in iconographic and material terms. Two narrators alternate, taking us back to the Ciompi Revolt, an actual revolution that unravelled precisely among the stones and the alleys and churches that we see. But the 14th century protest of the labouring classes is contrasted with an amazingly similar present-day fight. “[With analogue film] it’s a particular way of shooting: each shot is carefully prepared, there is great concentration in the moment of shooting, in the unity of shot, which I like. I also wanted to have two different formats, a more mobile part in Super 8, and another more ‘staged,’ on a tripod, in 16mm. I love the texture of these images.” (Agnès Perrais)