Private Project

DARKNESS

Sergio Racanati's DARKNESS film investigates our ecological hypotheses in a provocative and deeply involving way trying to develop a new vocabulary for the coding of "environmentalism" using the maximum drift of capitalism to trace and highlight the new possible variations of a discourse on ecology .
The filmic structure is the staging of a process of construction and de-construction of the collective and shared imagination of contemporary apocalypses in which the artist Sergio Racanati alternates the clothes of the ethnographer, political activist, shaman, but without never wear those of Cassandra who watches the events from above, bringing the apocalypse back to its literal meaning: revelation of meaning.

  • sergio racanati
    Director
  • sergio racanati
    Writer
  • Project Type:
    Experimental
  • Runtime:
    28 minutes 10 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    January 13, 2019
  • Production Budget:
    5,000 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Italy
  • Country of Filming:
    Italy
  • Shooting Format:
    digital
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
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Director Biography - sergio racanati

SHORT BIOGRAPHY
Sergio Racanati (23-09-1982 Bisceglie, Bat, Italy)
Among the recent artistic residences to whom the artist has participated, included: Museo Pino Pascali / Polignano a Mare - BA_I (2014); Harvard University curated by Marcus Owens (2013), Z33 Contemporary Museum, Hasselt_B (2012), Performance Space / Londra_UK, Edge Zones Foundation / Miami_US curated by Charo Oquet, promoted by GAI and MINISTERO DEI BENI E DELLE ATTIVITA’ CULTURALI E DEL TURISMO (2013). Sergio Racanati is the winner of the Performance Art section at the New York Biennial directed by Pietro Franesi and co-curated by Vjitaly Patsyukov and Lu Hao (2013), also participates in the Biennale del Mediterraneo (2012), at the 7th Berlin Biennale, within the "Preoccupied" project at the KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlino_D (2013) and the Bienal del Fin del Mundo / Mar del Plata _RA.

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Director Statement

The personal artistic research develops within the multitude of relationships, ideas and experiences aimed at generating connections with the fragile material of humanity, addressing the issue of sensitive spaces, common and community processes. In this context my practice looks to the public sphere and to the collective imaginaries as privileged places of investigation because even the boundaries of art have progressively expanded into a plural and transversal space.
At the base of the research there is an interest in social sciences, historical events, popular culture and mass culture, seen through an almost ethnographic lens. I work in the field of the enhancement of the historical and artistic heritage, in the awareness that this field constitutes an organic whole of works and a sample of examples aimed at representing an archive model. The archive thus becomes a device in progress which on the one hand negotiates, challenges and validates social power, on the other it shapes its collective memory.