Daniele Atzeni

From amateur archive footage a 6 episodes film for a new collective memory, after the quarantine period.

Mine of Inferru (Hell in the Sardinian language), Sardinia. Second half of the twentieth century. Sick and weary, an elderly miner gets buried by a landslide while mining a gallery. Suspended within a time-void between life and approaching death, the man describes the world of Inferru through an imaginative existential monologue, blending past, present, and sombre forebodings regarding the future. This film only employs archive footage in its depiction of a mesmerising trip across the final desperate, crazed and yet highly lucid thoughts of its protagonist, who tries to put a permanent end to his reckoning with society and his own conscience.

Alos is Gairo, a small town in Sardinia. Ghost town, now uninhabited. To tell the story is the Sardinian director Daniele Atzeni, a delicate and refined documentary filmmaker who narrates life stories of mines, workers and fishermen. A Sardinia unknown to most, forgotten by many.