Un Inferno
2016
The tattoo artists lead us to the discovery of a lively and chaotic world: "an inferno", populated by contradictory characters, marked by stories that hide a grotesque aspect and the drama of existences pushed to the limit. There’s no judgment, hellish is the condition that strongly binds even the crudest aspects of existence with attachment to life. Each one has already been judged and sometimes even condemned. In the intimacy of the tattoo parlour we observe their tenacity and enthusiasm. Events unfold cyclically, and even the structure of the film, without moments of stagnation and with a circular conclusion, emphasises this continuity: a day that never ends but restarts equally every time.
“A wound is drawn. Some call it unholy. Life dwells, buzzes, here too: a haven built on the whirring, dry sound of a machine. Words exit mouths, images hands. They speak of bodies; bodies glorious, sought for, gone. Winged or terrene, there really is no difference. In dreams they weigh the same. What matters is the lamplight that illuminates each chance, each meeting of needle and eye; the warmth of a summer just presumed and how it hits the neck, the inner arm, the picture of a beating; the ochre of a city that, (not) unlike any other, acts like a precious womb — to death as well as wishes.”
Written by Veronica Gisondi
Documentary
15' - Color - Italy
Neapolitan
with Giuseppe Fiorenza, Martina Damasco, Ciro Oliviero, Pasquale Garofalo, Elisa Vitiello, Arturo Damasco, Michele Borriello, Raimondo Bracale, Ilenia Perna, Federica Caso
written and directed by Camilla Salvatore
produced by Antonella Di Nocera/Parallelo 41
sound Ennio Donato
supported by Filmap Atelier del Cinema del Reale, ArciMovie, Parallelo 41