Tèmenos (2021)

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2.35:1 Anamorphic / Color / 3min 10sec. / ITA, 2021 A PROJECT BY Silvia Ronzano PRODUCED BY Bloodynose WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Massimiliano Cosi CHOREOGRAPHY AND DANCING Silvia Ronzano ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK Carmine Calia MUA Grazia Lombardi INDOOR VENUE Officine Culturali “Peppino Impastato”, Gravina in Puglia (BA) Tèmenos is the sacred enclosure in which we guard (or hide) our securities, so that they are not attacked by factual reality. A space that we used to attend only on special occasions, but which with the pandemic we have had to force more often, in search of protection from the unknown, for immediate answers. We transformed it into a space for forced sharing, in which the relational sphere, based on the unpredictability of meetings, had to adapt to the fixed appointment of the videocall and the tired informality of chats. The sacred enclosure, under the guise of the comfort zone, has turned into an electromagnetic field, making us want more than a return to social normality, a transition to natural asceticism. But it will not be taken for granted to find balance in this new condition. The individual scenario is then superimposed on a collective, cultural one. The sacred enclosure of art has been abandoned, like a theater from which everyone had to flee at the sound of a siren, interrupting whatever action they were carrying out. The artist, the only survivor, just has to take this opportunity to free himself from the meshes of marketing and the audience, returning to the dialogue with the primordial spectator, Nature. Again, it will not be easy to take the first steps in such a rarefied atmosphere.