Crossing the dragon

2024, film, group home "L'Approdo", Rome, Italy

In a travertine quarry, the search for a mythological figure intertwines with the traces left by its passage. The dragon is stripped of the stereotypes of threatening danger, shifting the fairy tale into a background that eludes, leaps, and dances between reality and fiction. Without declaring the biographies shaped by postcolonial migration, which marks the protagonists, a game of metamorphosis unfolds.

The image

Young people with a recent migratory past play at reinterpreting the fairy tale "Uccisione del drago" by Dino Buzzati. The foster home where they live and the places they frequent alternate with situations in a travertine quarry. The voices of the participants punctuate the silent images, blending their biographies with a new fairy tale.

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