Where do the Old Ignored Gods Go?

Dove Vanno i Vecchi Dei che il Mondo Ignora?
Dove Vanno i Vecchi Dei che il Mondo Ignora?

2022, Italy, video, color, sound, 67 min.

Where do the old ignored gods go? is a 67-minute feature film shot on volcano Etna, ranging between video essay, diary, fiction, and science film. The film is divided into three parts: "the lower region" in which superhuman titanic bodies, like contemporary Cyclopes, tear and cut volcanic boulders; "the fire region" where gods wander doomed between the Earth's interior and exterior, between shadows and fire; and "the deserted region" in which the film detaches itself from the human eye to go into the ultra-visible: inside the ash, among the crystals inside the rock, to the extreme point.

We are faced with enigmatic spaces, where everything has to do with archetypal and mythical, superhuman forces, through new and ancient symbolic relationships: all from the point of view of the machine, the technique, the superhuman eyes of technology. The gaze is always attached to the matter of the volcano, and same goes for the sound composed by remodulations of frequencies - basaltic rocks’ vibrations, seismograms, direct sounds of intra-crater and eruptive activity.