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Socialeyez - Fixed line

The fixed line is a song made of deep bass, stubborn speakers, lunar synthesizers and a surreal lyric. An electronic track, to dance arms to heaven and eyes closed like a Native American rain dance. But it is also a photograph of the contradictions generated by the process that aims at the affirmation, certainly sacrosanct, of a new model of "body", biological and social, architectural and relational: a mainly metropolitan model that could perhaps be called "eco / equo logical "and which seems to find its flags in environmental sustainability and sexual equality. So, while the text traces the noble profile of dynamic and aware citizens of those who are committed to differentiating waste, buy organic food, replace genderless asterisks and every change of patriarchal culture, music gives voice to the animal's rattle in everyone of us who, overwhelmed by super fast data networks whose origin and purpose is not recognized, declares eternal love and virtual souls and silicone bodies. New physical and mental materials, therefore, that desperately try to water the few surviving gardens between one skyscraper and the next with a pail in the quarters of the metropolises whose old rotten pipes control the loss of millions of drops of precious water every day . The fixed line is an ice giant that dances around the fire, launches into the sky but drips a land like a promise of salvation that becomes, gradually, as expected and desired as fragile and elusive.

  • SALVATORE INSANA
    Director
  • SALVATORE INSANA
    Writer
  • Paolo Dossena
    Producer
  • ELISA TURCO LIVERI
    Key Cast
  • Project Type:
    Music Video
  • Runtime:
    3 minutes 30 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    February 28, 2020
  • Production Budget:
    1,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Italy
  • Country of Filming:
    Italy
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - SALVATORE INSANA

DEHORS/AUDELA (Deor/Odelà-Fuori/Aldilà) è un collettivo fondato da Elisa Turco Liveri (performer, coreografa) e Salvatore Insana (videomaker, fotografo, regista). In D/A arti visive e arti performative confluiscono nel segno di una ricerca continua, in cui i diversi codici artistici, pur mantenendo una loro specificità, diventano al contempo capaci di generare nuove forme espressive. Il collettivo Dehors/Audela lavora da sempre sull'indagine dei luoghi di confine. Interstizi del presente, non solo concepiti come luoghi fisici, ma anche come aspetti sociali e antropologici. L'indefinito e l'ibrido sono da sempre gli ambiti prediletti della loro ricerca. Negli ultimi anni hanno dato vita, in collaborazione con la light designer Giovanna Bellini e con la musicista e sound artist Giulia Vismara, nel costante tentativo di superamento dei generi, a opere video-teatrali, performance di danza, progetti di ricerca audiovisiva, lavori di videodanza, installazioni urbane, percorsi d'indagine fotografica e workshops sperimentali. I loro lavori sono stati presentati in numerosi festival e sedi espositive, tra cui: Dansecentrumjette (Bruxelles), La Briqueterie (Paris), Fabbrica Europa (Firenze), Lavanderia a Vapore (Torino), CrossAward (Verbania), Dance & Foco Festival (Rio de Janeiro), Associazione Culturale Dello Scompiglio (Lucca), Teatri di Vetro (Roma), Anghiari Dance Hub, Kilowatt Festival, Sofia Undeground Performance Art Festival, Image Contre Nature (Marseille) e altri. Nel 2019 D/A vince l'open call de La Briqueterie CNDC du Val de Marne, per la produzione dell'opera di videodanza Aporia e del bando “Processi di rigenerazione urbana per spiriti creativi – Inn Veneto” per la realizzazione dell'opera Corpo Urbano.

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