“Do you know why gods envy us?”
The idea that a god, or gods, exist to save the world, takes hold most in moments when humans feel they have less control over reality. Chiara (Gelsomina Pascucci) does not believe in gods. She is a lighting technician, working, by coincidence, on a dance-theatre show dedicated to a god – Dionysus – who punishes humanity for not believing in his divine nature.
When her father Vittorio (David Coco) comes into her life, suffering from an illness that, on Earth, is considered something of a divine punishment, Chiara is forced to manage the most universal and ancient of conditions, one familiar to humans across time and the globe. This, a true story, is staged as a journey into her unconscious, leading her to the only possible answer.
"I wrote the story and then I constructed it visually, moving between a theatricalized hospital, an abandoned castle where the stage show is set and eventually performed; a theatre of memories that brings together what we manage to rebuild from memories and dreams of the places in our life, the beach in that perfect moment of our existence, a city that is the sum of all cities, combining ancient alleys and urban landscapes..." writes Anne-Riitta Ciccone, director of Gli immortali.
The hospital, inhabited by cold, brusque staff and ghostly patients, is hospital Carlo Forlanini in the Gianicolense district, an active hospital from 1920-2015; Cecchignola Castle provides the backdrop to the theatre show; Rome is glimpsed in the background with the buildings of the Vigna Murata suburb; the ancient alleys are the village of Vitorchiano (Viterbo).
“Do you know why gods envy us?”
The idea that a god, or gods, exist to save the world, takes hold most in moments when humans feel they have less control over reality. Chiara (Gelsomina Pascucci) does not believe in gods. She is a lighting technician, working, by coincidence, on a dance-theatre show dedicated to a god – Dionysus – who punishes humanity for not believing in his divine nature.
When her father Vittorio (David Coco) comes into her life, suffering from an illness that, on Earth, is considered something of a divine punishment, Chiara is forced to manage the most universal and ancient of conditions, one familiar to humans across time and the globe. This, a true story, is staged as a journey into her unconscious, leading her to the only possible answer.
"I wrote the story and then I constructed it visually, moving between a theatricalized hospital, an abandoned castle where the stage show is set and eventually performed; a theatre of memories that brings together what we manage to rebuild from memories and dreams of the places in our life, the beach in that perfect moment of our existence, a city that is the sum of all cities, combining ancient alleys and urban landscapes..." writes Anne-Riitta Ciccone, director of Gli immortali.
The hospital, inhabited by cold, brusque staff and ghostly patients, is hospital Carlo Forlanini in the Gianicolense district, an active hospital from 1920-2015; Cecchignola Castle provides the backdrop to the theatre show; Rome is glimpsed in the background with the buildings of the Vigna Murata suburb; the ancient alleys are the village of Vitorchiano (Viterbo).
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Chiara is the lighting technician for a dance-theatre show dedicated to Dionysus, who punishes humanity for not believing in his divine nature. When her father, Vittorio, pushes his way into her life, with a story that seems like a divine punishment, Chiara has to manage the most universal and ancient of conditions, one familiar to all humans across the globe and through time.
