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Zampogna: The Soul of Southern Italy (Sun.)
April 18 5:30-7 p.m. • AMC Mainstreet
Directed by David Marker
Feature-Documentary • 1:21:31 • U.S.A.
Preceded by: Happy 95 Birthday Grandpa, His Small World, 010101
Zampogna: The Soul of Southern Italy is a cultural journey through Southern Italy as experienced by an Italian American re-connecting with his family roots. The film takes on a fist person narrative perspective as the filmmaker immerses himself in the peasant culture of Southern Italy. To the viewer it might feel like they have been taken back in time to a different era when culture was local, self sustainable and home made. The story is driven by the filmmaker’s interactions with his distant Italian relatives and a host of local folk musicians on his voyage north from Sicily towards the annual ‘Zampogna Festival.’ He witnesses and interacts with peasants, shepherds, farmers, poets, and musicians that play a colorful array of folk instruments that the average viewer will never have known even existed. Some of the interesting people he meets along the way include his quirky Sicilian relatives whom sweating under the Mediterranean sun fill baskets with colorful fruit in their small vineyard and inform the filmmaker about his family’s connection to the land.
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010101
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Experimental • 0:01:01 • U.S.A.
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