Verticalmente demodé
“It is not the hardest route in the world, it is simply the hardest ‘sport’ route I have climbed. It has a long history and it starts when I first wondered what those places where the sun goes to die every night could be like. Eternit is hidden right up there, in a solitary and […]
Pepino’s back!
There is a square in the Vedado district (La Habana) where a statue of Beatle John Lennon sits quietly on a bench, staring at people walking by. Director Rogelio Paris says: ‘That statue is the government’s way of apologising to all the rockers in Cuba, for treating them as counter-revolutionaries and imperialists. Music is music’. […]
Sarabanda a filo di cielo
In the shadow of the majestic profile of Monte Cervino, two extraordinary personalities from seemingly distant worlds give rise to a memorable encounter in the name of a shared passion for mountains and beauty. The musician Mario Brunello and the mountaineer Nives Meroi devote themselves together to an unusual undertaking: to bring one of the […]
Un menestrel
A journey into the world of a contemporary artist who has made street theatre his form of expression in the vertical. The film, in the form of a documentary road movie, tells the story of Antoine Le Menestrel, a strong climber in the 1980s, in the stages of his tour in Italy and France, between […]
Leo Gasperl, L’eleganza della piega
A bat flies over the slopes of a resplendent Cervinia, star of the post-war economic boom, tourist destination for the VIPs of a world now gone.He is Leo Gasperl, a superlative athlete, an aesthete of skiing, a creator of styles and manners. A portrait of a man literally outside the norm. Luca Bich, a native […]