We Had to Move – Politics and Revolt

The Strait of Sicily has become the largest underwater cemetery in the Mediterranean.
The most conservative estimates speak of twelve thousand drowning deaths in the last ten years on the routes between Africa and our southern coasts."

Time: its passage and the impossibility of stopping it. The "unconfined" world of a young man.

Walter Benjamin's escape from Nazism had Port Bou as its final and definitive stop.

Rain, sun, clouds. An urban outskirts. Someone waits in front of a car. Elsewhere, a procession of workers. An explosion. The roar of the crowd. A hallucinatory journey begins, spanning space and time.
Two girls look around, read the newspaper, enter a cinema.
The travel lights pulse hypnotically.

I was looking for a lofty language, different from the mass media coverage of newspapers and TV that had invaded our eyes, hearts, and brains in those post-Genoa days. Reading Erri De Luca's nursery rhymes, I was moved and recognized in a poetic language, certainly biased, but thought-provoking. Ceste Armando

"The usual story. Who has the power, who doesn't. Now, as always, the clergy wins. Watch out!" Alessandro Tannoia and Lionello Lucio

A car journey, in Endgame. From the initial blackout—inside a garage—to the journey to peripheral locations, squares dedicated to communist militants, highways and tunnels, the video image is so powerful that it fades away and presents itself with all the warmth of film and, in any case/always, of a final tape to reckon with. The "endgame" concerns the Moro murder; the two men transport his body to the place where it was found. Giuseppe Gariazzo in issue 320 of «Cineforum»

The director retraces firsthand, fifty years later, his family's long journey to Argentina, where he was born, during the last wave of Piedmontese immigration in 1948.