The Big Question| 1hr : 14mins
Director: Francesco Cabras and Alberto Molinari | Producer: Ganga
Focus Years: 2006 | Country: Italy
Synopsis:
What were the existential and absolute queries that many of us began to pose to ourselves between puberty and adolescence, while hoping for final answers from our teachers, parents, priests or older brothers?
The documentary is based on an idea which is very simple, but at the same time quite complex: it asks extremely direct questions to a large and diverse group of people regarding their own intimate relationships with God, spirituality, and faith. One of the questions is, “Who is God for you?†A question simultaneously banal and very difficult, for which the response could not only take hours, but for some is a lifelong quest. In this case, the idea and the experiment is to demand nippy responses that are immediate and devoid of superstructures. The Directors utilize the apparent limits of an extemporaneous interview as a means for reaching brief moments of truth and sincerity. The foundation of the documentary is given by the vast heterogeneity of the human beings interviewed, each with its different, culture, religion, social and geographical background. The fact that this group of people all worked on a set of a film about the passion of Jesus Christ provided for far more attentive and profound answers.
That which one wishes to gain is a vast, extreme, delicate, rational but poetic, inflexible and hazy, range of differences in personal spiritual experience. This documentary speaks of one of the very few aspects of life that touches every human being, atheist, agnostic, mystic or those who have either not defined their creed or do not wish to go there.
The intention is that the vision of this documentary can interest anyone and capture the attention of the viewer, and that one will be touched profoundly, but will also be entertained. There are very moving and inspiring moments, but also testimonies that are striking and fun in their immediacy and ingenuity. The direction of the interviews is simple, as well as rigorous and painstakingly photographed like large-format Polaroids. The testimonies are sewed with decontextualized images of a white dog wandering among the Sassi and of the prehistoric churches of Matera in southern Italy. These places are depicted in a somewhat unstructured manner, surreal and oneiric along with an original soundtrack especially composed to build a purely narrative and aesthetic textile. The inspiring film for this project has been Pier Paolo Pasolini’s ‘Comizi d’amore’.
The Big Question
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1hr : 14mins
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