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CZARNA MADONNA (2004/2005) |
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Walbrzych is a Polish town, a former mining site active until the 90s, which has begun to decline due to the closing up of the mines and the consequent firing of hundreds of workers.
CZARNA MADONNA is a sort of sound-visual journey in the streets and in the interiors of this town, a maze of lanes and palaces black of soot, eroded by time and stillness, theatre of ghosts (the inhabitants) wandering aimlessly. Grey alleys and timeless courtyards, faces showing signs of poorness and alcohol, a stadium – once the boast of the town – transformed into ruins and a race-course for Sunday car raids.
On the opposite side, in the main church, an army of priests in uniform celebrate the catholic mass in pomp of colours, the colours of power. They celebrate the Black Madonna (Czarna Madonna), on the rhythm of the homonym song, a popular Polish hymn, re-arranged as a pop song and interpreted by one of the priests in a surrealistic tv-recital atmosphere.
The soundtrack, entirely based on the original audio, alternates voices and natural sounds to complex electroacoustic elaborations. Since the spoken parts are not essential for the understanding of the film, subtitles have been avoided; therefore the characters’ voices have been treated as music parts.
CZARNA MADONNA is a sort of sound-visual journey in the streets and in the interiors of this town, a maze of lanes and palaces black of soot, eroded by time and stillness, theatre of ghosts (the inhabitants) wandering aimlessly. Grey alleys and timeless courtyards, faces showing signs of poorness and alcohol, a stadium – once the boast of the town – transformed into ruins and a race-course for Sunday car raids.
On the opposite side, in the main church, an army of priests in uniform celebrate the catholic mass in pomp of colours, the colours of power. They celebrate the Black Madonna (Czarna Madonna), on the rhythm of the homonym song, a popular Polish hymn, re-arranged as a pop song and interpreted by one of the priests in a surrealistic tv-recital atmosphere.
The soundtrack, entirely based on the original audio, alternates voices and natural sounds to complex electroacoustic elaborations. Since the spoken parts are not essential for the understanding of the film, subtitles have been avoided; therefore the characters’ voices have been treated as music parts.
Year of production: 2004/2005
Length: 14'48"
Interpreters: Mieczeslaw, Zofia, Mariola Krajczewscy, Ks. Pawel Szerlowski, the inhabitants of the town of Walbrzych (Poland)
Idea, music and direction: Stefano Giannotti
Original format: MiniDV
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