Logline

It’s hard to believe that people in black and white pictures felt the same wind we feel, the same sun we feel, the same love, rage, rebellion. This film is about 100 years of faces and rocks in Seui, Sardinia.

Production Information

This film was born during the summer program of Cinemadamare, a film residency/traveling campus, in a small town named Seui, in the middle of the Italian island Sardinia.

With access to the Archivio Fotografico Seuese, which was created by the late Salvatore Priamo Meloni, and the blessing and artistic alignment of his nephew Matteo Sulis, I had the honor to re-animate the faces of the ancestors of Seui today.

Death and life, smiles and frowns, danced in my mind to the music of Ezio Bosso and Ennio Morriconi. I concluded that the defiant landscape and the unshakeable will of the people of Seui remained unchanged since the earliest photograph till today.

Fun fact, the sequence inside the archive was filmed on a tripod that was used by Salvatore himself, so the same spirit that took those photographs was guiding my camera. What an honor.

Crew

Created by Shadi Rabahi
With the help of Matteo Sulis
Photographs by Salvatore Priamo Meloni
Thanks to:
Archivio Fotografico Seuese
Salvatore Carboni
Giulia Vannini
Comune di Seui

Festivals

Official Selection at the ‘Land Peace and Justice Competition’ at the Oscar Qualifying Beirut Shorts.